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From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] 'wall' messages
Date: Mon,  6 Oct 2003 22:04:35 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310062155230.25907-100000@fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0310062230000.3289-100000@einstein.ssz.com>

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Jim Choate wrote:

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

how very, very wrong. if you want to be a dictator on your network you
surely won't get many users (how many does H18 have, exactly?).

in the real world, users are exactly the ones who pay for the hardware
you want to 'play god' on; sysadmins are only there to protect them from
each other.

recommended reading: scary.devil.monastery archives




  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-07  4:04 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
2003-10-07  4:04       ` andrey mirtchovski [this message]
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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