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From: mem@zinn.MV.COM (Mark E. Mallett)
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Subject: Re: Somebody invoked uucico -x9 to osu-cis...
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Date: 12 Sep 89 19:15:00 GMT
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In article <KARL.89Sep9121610@godiva.cis.ohio-state.edu> karl@godiva.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes:
>perry@ccssrv.uucp writes:
>   OUCH!!  I trust it was unintentional, or at worst the consequences were
>   unforseen.
>
>Probably so.  "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately
>explained by stupidity" and other trite thoughts apply.

I'd say that they apply to whoever made the "x" option affect both ends
without a) documenting it and b) giving an option that didn't do this.
NOT to the user of uucp who simply thought that the x option would
simply turn on local debugging output.  I have long been unimpressed
with this feature of uucp; I too occasionally find large audit files,
and I too grouse at the inability to run a -x9 uucico connection
because of what it will do to the other end.

-mm-