From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Dec 21 1:37:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.jamiesdomain.org.uk (trinity.jamiesdomain.org.uk [62.49.217.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 993CF37B416 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 01:37:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from goliath (goliath.jamiesdomain.org.uk [62.49.217.120]) by trinity.jamiesdomain.org.uk (8.11.4/8.11.4) with SMTP id fBL9Xwa13443; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 09:33:58 GMT (envelope-from jamie@jamiesdomain.org.uk) Message-ID: <001101c18a02$db9187c0$78d9313e@jamiesdomain.org.uk> From: "Jamie Heckford" To: "Wouter Van Hemel" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Chapter 11 - Storage Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 09:35:39 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org pfft... sorry! Im not offended in the slightest, and definatly opposed to censorship! My point was I read it, and thought I should let you guys know incase somewhere like slashdot picks it up. You know that some people would go OTT and twist the truth... I don't care if it stays IMHO. No flames please! :-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wouter Van Hemel" To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: ; "Jamie Heckford" ; Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 11:45 PM Subject: Re: Chapter 11 - Storage > On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > > The example of the World Trade Center is a good one. I think it should > > stay unless it is replaced with another concrete example of the need for > > "really off-site" backups. If you want to reword it to make it less > > blunt, that's fine too. > > > > It's disturbing to think about the events of September 11, but anyone > > who feels that fault tolerance and disaster recovery is important would > > be a fool not to study this incident and learn from it. > > > > I agree. I personally don't see anything in the message that is offensive. > I really think the backup's kept there are broken now. :) > > And everybody knows about the WTC, which makes this a good (if not > overdone) example. Extreme things can happen, either by human action, or > -more likely- by disasters of nature. > > How exactly does this show lack of respect for the loss of life? > > Furthermore, and without the intention of making this a flame war, I > also believe being easy offended is at least as much a problem of the > receiver. If we always have to keep the documentation and our language > suitable for the most meek and weak, we're not democratic, and it won't > make the docs more interesting either. > > The comment is in place, is correct, and a good example. If it offends > 0,01% of the people who read it, well, bummer... > > > Regards, > > wouter > > (This is my personal opinion ofcourse; I'd like to point out that I'm very > sensitive to censoring (as in seriously opposed to it) though - with all > respect to others' opinions.) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message