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Article #658Re: administration fascism
From: Karl Lehenbauer
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 1989 13:12
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 1989 13:12
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In article <2253@unmvax.unm.edu>, mike@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Michael I. Bushnell) writes: > Hmmm...I disagree. We are an "enlightened" site which lets people edit > /usr/lib/aliases. If someone f*cks up, then we have the simple solution > of asking "who changed the XXX alias to YYY?" and then we can explain to > them the necessity of being more careful in the future. Thus the cost of providing the flexibility of letting people edit /usr/lib/aliases is that, when they screw up, mail screws up -- sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. I don't know if I would call this policy "enlightened." I would say it balances things a little more toward ease-of-use at the cost of reducing reliability. Why do they need to edit /usr/lib/aliaes anyway? How often does this happen? -- -- uunet!sugar!karl | "We've been following your progress with considerable -- karl@sugar.uu.net | interest, not to say contempt." -- Zaphod Beeblebrox IV -- Usenet BBS (713) 438-5018
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!eecae!netnews.upenn.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!uhnix1!sugar!karl From: karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: administration fascism Message-ID: <3376@sugar.uu.net> Date: 1 Feb 89 13:12:58 GMT References: <412@execu.UUCP> <7094@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <412@avsd.UUCP> <2253@unmvax.unm.edu> Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX Lines: 16