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From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 'wall' messages
Date: Mon,  6 Oct 2003 22:31:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0310062230000.3289-100000@einstein.ssz.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <027d01c38c80$456eaed0$c901a8c0@cc77109e>


On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Bruce Ellis wrote:

> this solution works very well in practice, particularly if everyone
> runs seemail - the ominous bootes face herding everyone to
> the coffee machine.
>
> giving bootes some god-awful power to hijack other namespaces
> is not a very good solution.

Wait a minute, the users don't own those resources, they're borrowing
them. Within the context of the particular hardware it is completely
reasonable to leave bootes in control. Nobody is suggesting that bootes
necessarily be able to go out off that hardware and act as that user.

You're position basically lets the user have free reign over something
that isn't theirs. Yuck!


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can't prove it.
                          Andre Weil, in H. Eves, Mathematical Circles Adieu

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-07  3:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-07  0:30 mirtchov
2003-10-07  0:33 ` boyd
2003-10-07  0:35 ` jmk
2003-10-07  2:28   ` Jim Choate
2003-10-07  2:27     ` boyd
2003-10-07  2:54       ` Jim Choate
2003-10-07  2:30   ` [9fans] A final question on regex Jim Choate
2003-10-07  3:08   ` [9fans] 'wall' messages Bruce Ellis
2003-10-07  3:11     ` boyd
2003-10-07  3:31     ` Jim Choate [this message]
2003-10-07  4:04       ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-10-07  4:17         ` Jim Choate
2003-10-07  4:23           ` [9fans] A fine point on 'lazy update' Jim Choate
2003-10-07  4:25           ` [9fans] 'wall' messages andrey mirtchovski
2003-10-07 13:56             ` Jim Choate
2003-10-07 14:09               ` mirtchov
2003-10-07 14:19                 ` Dan Cross
2003-10-07 17:27                   ` Ralph Corderoy
2003-10-07  9:50       ` Bruce Ellis
2003-10-07 10:41         ` Lucio De Re
2003-10-07 11:27           ` Bruce Ellis
2003-10-07 11:52             ` Lucio De Re
2003-10-07 12:10               ` boyd
2003-10-08  1:43                 ` okamoto
2003-10-07 13:15               ` matt
2003-10-07 12:33                 ` Lucio De Re
2003-10-07 14:09                   ` Dan Cross
2003-10-07 13:40           ` Jim Choate
2003-10-08  8:39             ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-10-08 13:40               ` Jim Choate
2003-10-07 13:49         ` Jim Choate
2003-10-07 21:35           ` Bruce Ellis
2003-10-07 22:07             ` Joel Salomon
2003-10-08  5:34               ` Jim Choate
2003-10-08  5:48             ` Jim Choate
2003-10-08 14:21               ` rog
2003-10-08 18:14                 ` David Presotto
2003-10-08 18:52                   ` mirtchov
2003-10-09 15:07                   ` rog
2003-10-09 15:10                     ` David Presotto
2003-10-08 17:40               ` a
2003-10-07 22:38           ` boyd
2003-10-08  9:36             ` Ralph Corderoy
2003-10-08 13:57               ` Dan Cross
2003-10-07 23:19       ` a
2003-10-08  2:35         ` Jim Choate
2003-10-08  2:42           ` Bruce Ellis
2003-10-08  2:52             ` Jim Choate
2003-10-08 14:46               ` rt
2003-10-09  0:31                 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-10-09  1:29                   ` Bruce Ellis
2003-10-09 18:36                   ` rog
2003-10-09 22:32                     ` Geoff Collyer
2003-10-08  9:36           ` Ralph Corderoy
2003-10-08 13:38             ` Jim Choate
2003-10-08 17:02               ` a
2003-10-08 14:24           ` rt
2003-10-08 15:10             ` Jim Choate
2003-10-08 15:47               ` rt
2003-10-08 21:53             ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-08 22:59               ` Jim Choate
2003-10-07  3:48     ` Dan Cross
2003-10-07  3:51       ` boyd
2003-10-07  4:09       ` Jim Choate
2003-10-07  4:15         ` boyd
2003-10-07  2:37 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2003-10-07  2:41 ` boyd

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