Boneheaded [System]Operator From Heck

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <849161696.21274@dejanews.com>,  Tony Mori,
<tmori@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >DAMN! I wish you guys had your accounts at the ISP I work for....
>> >can you say RM_USER ? (User Deleting script, for you non-unix dweebs)

>Wanna talk about it? I'll have my news-admin create a comp.sys.apple2.nopiracy
>(or whatever) newsgroup, and you guys can talk about it to NO end! 

   Sure, go talk to your "news-admin" and ask him to create that
group.  Be sure he's got a very nice LART handy, because you need to
really get one before you talk about usenet again. Tip: ask him to
explain the RFD, CFV, voting procedures, and other requirements to
create a new newsgroup in comp.*. I've participated in at least 8
newsgroup creations, from most of comp.sys.apple2.* to helping with
the planning and promoting rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated.

   Just how did you get your job as a "sysadmin" anyhow? Your father
set up the business in the garage, and he needed some warm bodies on
the phones?  AOL too technical for you, so you picked up a "Unix for
dummies" book? You impressed the boss by pointing out his computer was
off? When I first was exposed to unix and the internet, the sysadmins
had a clue, not just about mirror.pl and "rm_user" [real sysadmins
don't need to explain their scripts], but in how the internet, usenet,
and everything else worked. However, with pissant ISPs a dime a dozen,
I guess they've gotta be scraping the bottom of the barrel pretty hard
to pick you off the streets.

    I think I should find a few of your competitiors and point them at
your "expertise" on dejanews. Great advertising for them, being able
to point out that their competitiors hire total boneheads with no
technical clue, and will attempt to censor anyone they disagree with.
Only if your ISP has a "we can kill your account for any reason"
clause can you get away with blind threats to nuke paying
accounts. However, nuking accounts is just BAD for business. 

   Wouldn't your boss at netrunner.net like to know that you're
threatening to cost his business in terms of lost revenue? How'd your
boss like to know of your online threats to mirror a pirate software
site, and hide it somewhere on his system, making him liable? Tony
Mori, your words have consequences. You can think you can just mouth
off, but your postings posing as an admin on your account at the
company have made you an "official" representative of the
company. Better make sure everyone in the company agrees with them, or
be prepared to eat major crow over them.

   Have a nice day. And remember that every future employer of yours
can also look at your words online, and see precisely what you are: a
power-hungry Boneheaded System Operator. It's the holiday season;
there are plenty of homeless shelters that can take you in if you find
yourself in major trouble.

Nathan Mates

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