RW> One wonders what these doofuses would do if they understood
 RW> that:

 RW> 1.  YOu will be charged for damage for company equipment;

 RW> #2.  YOu can get fired for damaging company equipment
 RW> repeatedly.

these two, at least, should be part of /every/ network usage policy that
any and all companies have... period...

"we" are continually pointing things like this out to those
asking for technical means of blocking social activities in the firewall
support forums i participate in... we keep telling them, over and over and
over again, you cannot control social problems via technical means... there
MUST be a policy in effect that gives the "company" legal rights
to terminate the users' usage of the network... one way or another...

some of them fuss about being told that... until they are truly shown how
it can affect their networks and company in a very detrimental way... first
is cost analysis of the usage of p2p apps on their company network...
second is when they are shown cost analysis of the usage of allowing
streaming traffic like "radio" and "tv" on their
company network... this is especially driven home when they are having to
pay for the traffic flow... inbound or outbound... OMG! and you should see
the stuff that comes back when the owner(s) of the company believe that
they should have unfettered access and they get infested with
"garbage" out there that they don't even know about or
understand...

i really hate to educate the ignorant... not! well... yeah... maybe... no... not!!

)\/(ark