Re: [Assp-user] Mailhop Backup MX?

[Melvin <me...@sl...>]

Jeroen van Aart wrote:
> Melvin wrote:
>   
>> How do I get a job where you are?  As an alternative, how do you manage 
>> to fire all the clueless less offs (oops, that should be more ons) who 
>>     
>
> Well what I mean to say is that you should stand up to the whims of 
> people who do not understand what you do. Just as they wouldn't accept, 
> for example, marketing nonsense from an IT person. What if you demanded 
> from them, using marketing again as an example, that they have a 100% 
> response on every brochure they send out, or that *gasp* 100% of those 
> will arrive AND be read.
>
>   
>> used to work where you are.  Either alternative would make my life 
>> infinitely easier, although it also might mean there would be less need 
>> for my services.  Dang, there's always a catch.  :)
>>     
>
> No worries about becoming absolete, if that ever would happen it would 
> already have happened. You just have to be firm and tell people the 
> truth, email is not a guaranteed service, and use a few impressive 
> websites and RFCs to further your claim. Once they realise that indeed 
> this is the case and that almost everyone administrating servers and 
> many users agree to that they will give up.
>
> Greetings,
> Jeroen
>
>   
Just when I was sure I'd finally found the perfect place to put my 
skills to use. :)  I regularly explain the realities of the computer 
world to my users, whatever their level of expertise.  Sometimes it 
works, sometimes it doesn't, but it always makes for entertaining 
conversation among my fellow admins later.  :)

Later...

-- 
  Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards,
  for they are subtle and quick to anger.
                      -- Gildor Inglorion