From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 20 10:13:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7D5437B407 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:13:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id TAA06651; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 19:21:23 +0200 Message-ID: <3B58673F.E3BFC0F3@i-clue.de> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 19:15:43 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Moran Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OT] POLA? (was Re: Default retry behaviour for mount_nfs) References: <3B585F1F.C6FCB9AC@mindspring.com> <3B58601D.ACB852A5@iowna.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Moran wrote: > > > > > Sometimes the stick of POLA should be broken. > > Off topic, I know, but it's going to bother me. > > What's POLA? Policy Of Least Astonishment -- doing changes in a way which will annoy the least number of users. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message