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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:36:06 +0100
From: Eris Discordia <eris.discordia@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Skipping general offenses...

> List manager: can we *please* just boot this guy until he comes back
> as a real person? It's getting old.

Is it _that_ annoying to you? I could just keep silent if it is so, no
"booting" required. Though I have to say I don't understand how a handful
of emails to a mailing list someone happens to read can irritate them to
such extent. In passing, instead of a threat you could have simply let the
first response be. Were it really a piece of useless text, it would rot on
its own.

--On Thursday, August 21, 2008 10:11 AM -0700 ron minnich
<rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Eris Discordia
> <eris.discordia@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Basically, a terminal should not hold _any_ information on its users.
>> Where does the security of not keeping authentication information on a
>> so-called terminal go when you _keep_ it on the "terminal?" But with
>> multiple users you're going to need authentication. Right?
>
> Eris, this is getting a little boring. Are you really this ignorant of
> what's going on? I don't mind ignorance
> per se but you keep wasting people's time as they try to explain CS
> 101 to you. Maybe you could start a blog and we could
> all ignore it -- it's much easier that way.
>
>>
>> My impression: the UNIX authentication "farce" happened because UNIX
>> began as a replacement to a time-sharing system for more or less
>> physically secure computers but then was downsized to an OS--many OS's,
>> in fact--also usable on personal computers, e.g. 386BSD.
>
> Your impression? Well, that's one way to go at it.. Of course, there
> is the option of acquiring knowledge. It is more work however.
>
> If this is your picture of what happened then you need to go back and
> do some reading.
>
> You leave the "impression", to me anyway, that you read a lot but I
> can not tell that you actually do much of anything. And, to top it
> off, you exist only as an imaginary wikipedia entry.
>
> List manager: can we *please* just boot this guy until he comes back
> as a real person? It's getting old.
>
> ron
>