From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 30 0:12:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org (saarinen.org [203.79.82.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1404F37B422 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 00:12:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from juha@saarinen.org) Received: from dendennis.saarinen.org ([192.168.1.2] helo=dendennis) by vimfuego.saarinen.org with smtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hack)) id 14u7rI-0001va-00; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 19:12:36 +1200 From: "Juha Saarinen" To: "Jordan Hubbard" , Cc: , , Subject: RE: tail Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 19:12:04 +1200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20010430000101U.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :: How does that quote go, "Unix doesn't stop you from doing stupid :: things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things." Shooting yourself in the foot stems from World War I, when people did that in the hope of being repatriated from the trenches as war invalids. Obviously, there were some side-effects to putting a rifle to your foot... People confuse that expression with being "hoist on your own petard". Anyway, what you said above is no justification for punishing users for accidents (and yes, I know about rm -rf / and all that). -- Juha To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message