Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!eris.berkeley.edu!mwm
From: mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Ten Commandments of Personal Computing
Message-ID: <26464@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 19 Jul 89 09:47:34 GMT
References: <66667@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <294@wet.UUCP>
Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU
Reply-To: mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer)
Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica
Lines: 23

In article <294@wet.UUCP> epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) writes:
<There were a lot of
<times when I was hacking on something at 6:30 p.m. on a Friday ...
<only to be screwed until Monday because someone else "forgot" to
<make something essential available.
<
<You've got to have trust.

This is the best reason in the world for _not_ making a habit of
snooping through peoples files at random. If you know that people will
only go through your files for things they need, you're a lot more
likely to leave things unprotected by default.

On the other hand, there's the dimwit who did "ls -R / | lpr" on one
of my systems today, thus grabbing a laser printer for hours. Didn't
even have the courtesy to do "find '' | lpr".

	<mike
--
Must have walked those streets for hours,		Mike Meyer
In the dark and in the cold,				mwm@berkeley.edu
Before I really could accept,				ucbvax!mwm
There's no place called hope road.			mwm@ucbjade.BITNET