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From: ab3@pucc-h (Darth Wombat)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Re: *Argh* -- I surrender.
Message-ID: <542@pucc-h>
Date: Tue, 14-Feb-84 11:48:08 EST
Article-I.D.: pucc-h.542
Posted: Tue Feb 14 11:48:08 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 17-Feb-84 03:56:31 EST
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
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	What follows is an attempt to respond to Orlando Sotomayor-Diaz...

>	Wombat says, when attacking the proposals to split a couple of 
>	newsgroups:
>	
>	>... most of this is [sic] stems from the *laziness* of those 
>	>folks who don't want to take the time to look at a few extra headers.

	Well, I made a typo. Sorry; So did you: I'm pur-ee!rsk aka Darth Wombat,
not uicsl!wombat, who is a fine marsupial netter, but at a different site.

>	We are not lazy, we are just concerned about using the 
>	resources of our employers for activities that are of 
>	questionable business value.  Many people
>	read news on company time, others offline, but all are
>	using company money.  

	By your argument, then, you should turn off net.non-business-related.*;
shoudn't you?

>	In your case, you might be a student somewhere
>	and the situation might be different, but we (and other
>	corporations on USENET) must always be on alert
>	to justify how this activity can make the bottom line look healthier.

	Ah! I must be a student and therefore unaware of economic realities?
Hmmm...I'd like to see *you* justify net.singles to *your* management as
a profit-producing entity.

>	I'm rather surprised that some allegedly computer (?) people make
>	mockery of the efficiency argument. I certainly would hesitate using
>	your products... 

	For your info:  Unix Systems Staff, Purdue University C.C.
			Working towards Ph.D. E.E.

			Former position: Software Engineer, Omnimedical
					 Tomography/Radiography Systems

	So if you've been in for a scan lately, you just might have...

Steamingly,
-- 
"Go ahead...make my day."
Darth Wombat
ARPA: rsk@purdue
UUCP: { allegra, decvax, ihnp4, harpo, seismo, teklabs, ucbvax } !pur-ee!rsk