[Mimedefang] Re: Unsafe file types

[Ole Craig]

On 12/02/03 at 16:30, 'twas brillig and Kevin A. McGrail scrobe:
[...]
> For example, Cars have been around for 100 years and I'm certain that just
> today, at least a few thousand people blew their engines without proper oil
> care or heck, just ran out of fuel without reading the gauge or paying
> attention to the blinking *Low Fuel* warning.  And I'm sure quite a few
> mechanics thanked their lucky stars that they can now charge someone $5K for
> a new engine and feed their kids and pay the mortgage.
> 
> So my recommendation is to stop expecting people to want to learn/take care
> of/care about the computers as a tool and appreciate the industry it creates
> for the uber-administrator.

	This is true, but there's a difference between the mechanic
scenario and most administrators -- most sysadmins are not paid
per-incident. 

	[wavy lines] Imagine you're a company mechanic whose job it is
to keep the truck fleet in working order. You get the same salary
regardless of how much time you spend on any one truck or in any one
week, and furthermore you have to justify your yearly parts budget.
How do you feel about the driver who keeps wrecking engines by
ignoring the oil light, or who needs new tires once a week because he
ignores the warning signs that say "don't drive over the big sharp
spikes"? Or who keeps jackknifing his rig in the loading dock
driveway, thereby keeping the rest of the trucks from loading and
unloading normally? [/wavy lines]

	Yeah, it's not a great analogy. But neither was the first one. 



		Ole
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