Re: [ILUG] Re: [ILUG-Social] Article...

From: Liam Bedford (lbedford at domain lbedford.org)
Date: Fri 15 Jun 2001 - 15:16:06 IST


On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 10:10:03AM -0400, kevin lyda came forth with:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 02:41:48PM +0100, Ruairi Newman wrote:
> > Has anyone seen Freshmeat today? Good article at domain
> > http://freshmeat.net/artiles/view/259/ called "The Egoless Admin"... and
> > more to the point, a very funny counterpoint to it in the responses down the
> > page a bit.
>
> the article *is* very good. asr is a beautiful thing, but like all
> beautiful things it must be appreciated at the proper time. there are
> admins, some even inhabit this list, who read asr as a training manual
> for how to be an admin. it isn't. it never was. no one there ever
> intended it to be.
>
> it's either for very experienced admins, or people who aren't admins
> any more.
>
ASR is hilarious... can't keep up with it...

but it's for _recovery_...

being nice to users (up to a point) is always a good way of getting
kudos...

just don't be too nice and do their laundry.

L.

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