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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:47:55 +0200
To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS
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At 12:01 PM +0200 2005-10-31, Danny Braniss wrote:

>>  >  you probably know many scenarios that i - thankfully - am no
>>  >  aware of, but by creating the magic DEFAULTS file the problem
>>  >  still exits! What will prevent from Joe Shootmyfoot to comment out
>>  >  the lines in DEFAULTS?
>>
>>  	chflags schg DEFAULTS
>
>  yes if it's you, but not if im Joe Shootmyfoot!

	At least it will slow them down.  They road to shooting 
themselves in the foot will dead-end, and they'll be forced to turn 
left or right before they can continue towards that goal.  Put a big 
enough roadblock there, and most of those idiots will probably manage 
to avoid shooting themselves in the foot.

	Not all, of course.  But most.

-- 
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