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- From: judi@wam.umd.edu (Jay T Stein -- your name may vary)
- Subject: Kodak's Official Policy (formerly: Want to adopt)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.130932.10745@wam.umd.edu>
- Originator: judi@rac1.wam.umd.edu
- Sender: Jay for himself
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- Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
- References: <1993Jan23.040647.298@noao.edu> <1993Jan24.013653.20202@netcom.com> <1993Jan24.203827.24969@rotag.mi.org>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:09:32 GMT
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- What: <1993Jan24.203827.24969@rotag.mi.org>
- Who: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
-
- >> = gordons@netcom.com (Gordon Storga)
- >>> = forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach)
- >>>> = (Keith "Justified And Ancient" Cochran):
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- [ Kevin Hammond's article asking about adoption, posted from Kodak ]
-
- >>>> Doesn't Kodak have a very strigent policy about company computer
- >>>> resources being used for non-company purposes?
- >>>
- >>>For Pete's sake. Kodak takes a very dim view of .signatures, posted every
- >>>day attached to political opinion articles, in which the author claims to
- >>>speak for Kodak and all it's subsidiaries.
- >>>
- >>>THAT is what got Dan Bredy in trouble.
- >>
- >>Not according to the original response from Kodak. It was using company
- >>resources for non-company business.
- >
- >Sounds like a fairly vanilla corporate response. What the REAL reasons are,
- >is anyone's guess...
-
- Precisely. I have no doubt that that "official" excuse is transparent at
- best, but if they are going to cite official policy as a reason, then they
- can reasonably be expected to be consistent about it.
-
- >My problem is not with Kodak, who after all has the legal and (IMO) ethical
- >right to determine the use of its resources, CITING ANY JUSTIFICATION THEY
- >WISH, OR NONE AT ALL,
-
- That's true, but if they're going to issue a vanilla corporate response
- they should expect to take heat for it when they don't enforce it fairly.
- I don't object to the inconsistency being pointed out.
-
- >but with interlopers like Mr. "Justified and Ancient"
- >who seems bent on insuring that if Dan Bredy doesn't have his net.access,
- >that by golly everyone else who works at Kodak should be punished by losing
- >their net.access too (as if their collective misery was going to help Dan a
- >bit)!
-
- Interesting how people have different interpretations of things, Kevin!
- Before I read your response, I honestly read Keith Cochran's article as
- a request to *restore* Dan Bredy's access, not restrict everybody else's.
- But then, I try to be optimistic, so I will guess that Keith's intent was
- clsoer to my guess than yours. 'course, I'm sure he'll tell me if I'm
- wrong. :)
- --
- But still I fear and still I dare not speak for Kodak.
-
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