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Date:      Mon, 17 Jul 2000 23:10:57 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        alex@big.endian.de (Alexander Langer)
Cc:        James Howard <howardjp@glue.umd.edu>, Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.ORG>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /etc/security -> /etc/periodic/security ? 
Message-ID:  <4573.963868257@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:39:18 %2B0200." <20000717183918.A26484@cichlids.cichlids.com> 

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In message <20000717183918.A26484@cichlids.cichlids.com>, Alexander Langer writ
es:
>Thus spake James Howard (howardjp@glue.umd.edu):
>
>> fairings?  Why does it matter what color the bikeshed is?  What does
>
>What is this thing with the bikesheds???
>
>It appears on every place I am, on IRC, now here.
>
>As a non-native English-speaker, I'd like to know what's up with the
>poor bikesheds.  The poor ones :-(

It's a reference to a particular apt description of how committees
work and don't work from the excellent book:

	Parkinson's Law
	C. Northcote Parkinson
	Buccaneer Books
	ISBN 1-56849-015-1

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Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
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