[techtalk] The manager to send flames to:

[David Merrill]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 07:32:31PM -0400, Tami Friedman wrote:
> 
> Last week I sent out email detailing my experience as an accused telnet
> criminal.  No one has yet made any convincing argument that I was in any
> way jeopardizing the machine I was telnetting from, but the unnamed system
> manager has completely halted my ability to job-hunt by his irrational and
> ignorant prohibition of my use of telnet to my shell account where I
> receive email.  
> 
> Since the rules of the site state that the resources of the site (including
> the computers and their installed programs) are to be used for job-search
> activities and I was using the telnet program ALREADY INSTALLED on the
> machine, I cannot be accused of breaking the rules.

You said you used PuTTY from a floppy before. What gives?

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Real software engineers work from 9 to 5, because that is the way the job is
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