Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Reading others files (Was: Ten Commandments of Personal Computing) Message-ID: <5020@ficc.uu.net> Date: 16 Jul 89 13:12:45 GMT References: <12702@well.UUCP> <26368@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Distribution: comp Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 29 Come on, there are all sorts of levels you're missing here... In article <26368@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer) writes: > 1) Waiting for someone in their office with their permission. > 2) Waiting for someone in their office (this & others are sans permission). > 3) Looking for a document you have a right to have after entering through > an open door. > 4) As #3, but through a closed & locked door. ... What about: Scanning their bookshelf while (1) or (2). Pulling an interesting book of their bookshelf while (1) or (2). IMHO, browsing people's files is more like looking at their bookshelves. The question is, what constitutes a user's bookshelves? ~user/bin Certainly. ~user/termcap Certainly. ~user/src Probably. ~user/lib Maybe. ~user/schedules Probably not. ~user/resume Certainly not (does indicate a dim-bulb, though). ~user/mbox No bloody way. -- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Business: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. | Th-th-th-that's all folks... Personal: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' | -- Mel Blanc Quote: Have you hugged your wolf today? 'U` | May 30 1908 - Jul 10 1989