On Tue, 20 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mr. Helfman: > > I am a CS student at the University of Texas, and I am also a (silent) > member of our siglinux mailing list. Recently, someone posted the URL > http://www.nerdherd.net/oppression/. From this URL, I was able to locate > your story with its updates. Honestly, I am fascinated with the injustice > and the apparent incompetence that the beaurocrats running the resnet at > UCLA exhibit. As I am somewhat fearful of damaging your position, I > thought it best to request your permission to e-mail Mr. Shilling at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Mr. Park at [EMAIL PROTECTED] to ask their > reconsideration of the issue an an overturning of their decision. If I > gain your permission, I would also like to request that you send e-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking the rest of us Linux-users at UT > to do the same. I am very troubled by the injustice being served; and, as > my dormitory plans to have our ethernet connection installed by the end of > the week, I am very interested in any precedent-type of effect UCLA's > policy adjustment might have on my running Linux on our network. Thank > you for your time and prompt response. Yesterday, I would have gladly given you permission to send emails to the admins here (not that you really need my permission to do so). However, things are different today. It seems that the publicity and subsequent emails to date have actually been sufficient to set the wheels of change in motion! I've heard from several sources that the network admins (in the Business and Finance Information Technology Group) are actually performing a policy review. That in itself doesn't mean that anything will be made more fair, but it does signify that they are no longer brushing this off as the unimportant request of a mere discontented student, which seemed to be their original stance. Additionally, I have a meeting tomorrow with several high-up people in the Computer Science and other departments, and they are very concerned about this policy. There is even going to be a campus-wide network policy meeting on Friday (which I won't be present at). Basically, I feel that the little bit of pressure applied so far by the people who've read my story was enough to make them realize that they had better examine the situation. If they do so, and still stick with the same policy, or a similar one, then I'll just make that known to the public again. But for now, I'd suggest that you hold off. I really do appreciate your offer however. It amazed me how many people wrote in on my behalf, or just provided their advice. I know that a lot of my actions to fight this thing were direct suggestions from people who had read my story on the net. If this saga has a happy ending, it will be in very large part due to you and everyone else who offered support. Feel free to share this little spiel with anyone you want. > > Sincerely, > > Robert Olmstead > > > P.S.--"Linux 2.0: Where do you want to go tomorrow?" > P.P.S.--To subscribe to our siglinux mailing list, check out > http://locutus.csres.utexas.edu/siglinux/ > > Thanks again, Dan --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
