Yes, it was stated as a general ideology. But general ideologies don't apply to every situation. I think it should be clear that I wasn't advocating IT allowing users to do whatever they wanted in any situation, regardless of the impact on network security and performance.
John From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 8:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Amusing The statement was: "Who says what's "right," though? That brings us back to trying to force humans to adapt to technology rather than designing technology for the way users work." That was stated a general ideology. So you may say that in this context there was no reason to categorize the behavior as "wrong" (although you seemed to leave out the third leg of my concern, recoverability, which in Harris' example to which you responded would be a significant issues if users were allowed to store "everything" in their mailboxes.) I gave you a quick example of why we are in a position to say what is "wrong" to do. And I could easily come up with dozens of others. You'll notice I never said we shouldn't provide effective alternatives. But your response demonstrates that we often do have to call something "wrong" for very valid reasons. -sc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
