From: Simurgh@yabbs
To: statix@yabbs
Subject: re: used vt100s
Date: Sat Jun 11 20:31:40 1994

re: Stupid sysadmin action of the month.

Heh... Well, a lot of sysadmins by colleges and universities don't have 
much time to spend working on network connections. A lot of the time is 
spent getting library stuff to work right, and stuff along those lines. 
That's assuming they're even paid to be there full time. A few sysadmins 
of colleges that I know are paid part time, while a bunch of incompetent 
assistants work full-time. Real sysadmins and netadmins that know what 
they're doing and work well get paid a lot. 6-digits, where the first 
digit is often a multiple of 3.. :) But ignoring it when someone's nice 
enough to tell you about it is really bad, since you can lose data or 
something that sue the sysadmin, since you notified that person. The good 
way to get through, send a cc: to their boss.

On the other hand, I've seen many people be accused of trying to take the 
network down, when all they were doing was reporting a bug. Some sysadmins 
think that anyone that knows the first thing about a network topology or 
something must be a hacker or something. *shrug*

-Simurgh