On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 04:30:09PM +0000, Redvers Davies wrote: > > > however as the guys who admin the box do so on a voluntary basis, i > > Where's the logic in that? Are volunteers more likely to make > > mistakes resulting in data loss than paid admins? Personally > I expect Greg is reffering to accountability and sueability.
And also to lack of facilities. When I'm adminning professionally, I can spend money on backup hardware, can have a test box sitting around, and so on. When I'm adminning voluntarily it is rare indeed to have those luxuries. And so when those rare disasters do happen, there's less that can be done about it. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary" -- H. L. Mencken
