From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Choate To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] 'wall' messages In-Reply-To: <027d01c38c80$456eaed0$c901a8c0@cc77109e> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 22:31:45 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 636d5ce4-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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! -- -- God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exist because we can't prove it. Andre Weil, in H. Eves, Mathematical Circles Adieu ravage@ssz.com jchoate@open-forge.com www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com