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Date:      Sat, 14 Apr 2001 13:34:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.org>, Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org>, Kris Kirby <kris@catonic.net>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
Subject:   Re: Just an observation - MUA's seen in the lists
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010414133447.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010414134832.0499ff00@localhost>

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On 14-Apr-01 Brett Glass wrote:
> At 05:42 AM 4/14/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> 
>>And what would you call the Windows registry?
>>
>>The only thing people can do if the registry is damaged is reinstall
>>everything.  That's always an option on any operating system, but
>>(except in some bizarre situation) you never have to resort to that on
>>FreeBSD.
> 
> The Windows Registry is an abomination. It puts all of a system's
> eggs in one fragile, insecure basket.

s/Windows Registry/netinfo database/, s/Windows Registry/\/etc directory/, etc.
The whole system is a fragile basket.  This is why we have the nifty feature
known as 'backups'.

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