Maybe OT: Network ethics - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

2 Feb 2002

On February 2, Jeff Hellige wrote:
...
  	True.  I was looking at it from the point as to
whether it 
 was ok for someone to do it at all, regardless of what thier motives 
 might be behind it or whether the network was secure enough to handle 
 it if someone did happen to do so.  With our LAN for instance, we  
  Well don't take my first comment the wrong way...it's certainly RUDE
at the very least...like walking into someone else's house for the
first time and helping yourself to whatever's in the fridge.  My mom
taught me you just don't DO stuff like that...but some people just
seem to do it anyway. :-(

...
  don't enable or allow DHCP at all...everyone is on
static IP 
 addresses.  We're always having to track down conflicts though 
 because there's a small group within the building that think they can 
 do whatever they wish. 
  Sounds like it's time to break some fingers.

  I've been saying that a lot lately.  I wonder if I'm becoming less
tolerant of others.

  Nah.

    -Dave

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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL         "Less talk.  More synthohol." --Lt. Worf