Well, it's better than being told to go screw myself, and better than being ignored completely. But I notice that although the idea "requires further investigation", he didn't mention whether they were actually going to do any investigation. Pretty convenient. Time to ratchet it up a notch, I guess.

To Matthew Jue, City of Campbell Traffic Engineer; Herman Wadler, Campbell Bike Advisory Committe; Stephanie Condon, The Campbell Reporter

Greetings. I read with great interest the article in the Dec 7 Campbell Reporter regarding the project to add bike lanes under the Hwy 17 overpass. As a Campbell resident and daily bike commuter, this crossing is one of the trickier areas I ride through. I definitely support improving bike facilities, especially since there are bike lanes leading up to the underpass from the Bascom Avenue side which suddenly end without signage, leaving many cyclists unsure of what to do. On the weekends, the problem is much worse with the increased bike and pedestrian traffic around the trail and through Campbell Park.

However, given the physical constraints of the underpass as well as the financial burden to the City, I wondered if you would consider making a shared right-hand lane "bike route" instead of a separate bike-only lane. This would simply involve signage, paint, and hopefully some education / awareness-raising activity which would still cost substantially less than the proposed construction.

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On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Jennifer Davis wrote:

What exactly should we as system administrators be worrying about if our lawyers/auditors aren't jumping down on us telling us that we have these new rules of compliance to worry about? Does it only affect public companies and government? There isn't exactly a sysadmin friendly source for information as far as I know (unless I missed that part of this thread).

Yes, publicly traded companies are on the hook this year, though if you're at a privately-held company that has a (realistic) chance of being public some day, it's good to be thinking about compliance issues. I posted a couple of rant-ish emails back in August under the title "Sox Nightmare" and the resultant threads contained some good info and might be worth a visit to the archives.

Revisiting what I wrote then, I realize an update based on where we are could be helpful. I've gained a better understanding of what this thing is all about; approx 3 weeks ago something went "click" in my brain and I became a mean, lean, compliance-documenting machine.

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Thank you to all who responded, both on- and off-list. Encouraged (or at least, 'less discouraged') by your answers, I tracked down our consultant and got some more information. Here's a summary of your responses and his:

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[ Reposted from sage-members ]

I haven't seen much (any?) discussion about Sarbanes-Oxley compliance here, but I'm in the middle of this prolonged nightmare and I'm hoping to write my way out of it. Can somebody else who's working on this stuff chime in with a sanity check for me?

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