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Re: [MUD-Dev] Wild west (was Guilds & Politics)
- To: mud-dev#null,net
- Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] Wild west (was Guilds & Politics)
- From: Ola Fosheim Grøstad <olag#ifi,uio.no>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 01:20:08 +0100 (MET)
JC Lawrence <claw#under,Eng.Sun.COM> wrote:
>On Wed, 31 Dec 1997 10:10:05 PST8PDT Ola wrote:
>> No, that is not what I meant. What I mean is that humans make
>> slips. Some systems make those slips more likely. That makes "rm
>> -rf" such a funny and impolite and hated email signature.
>
>To the same extent I can't protect the MUD from nuclear missile
>strikes, acts of god(s), meteors falling on the server from the
>heavens, or other forms of less interesting hardware failure, I can't
>stop the admin from doing silly things at the command line of his
>machine. Sure, I can install tight file permissions (ACLs actually),
*sigh*
The user, not the admin. It was an example of how "bad" design + a
slip can have a rather drastic effect. A good design will take slips
into account.
>Now, if you should happen to want certain data lost, that is a
>different matter that I don't address.
But the topic I tried to address.
Ola.
- Thread context:
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Wild west (was Guilds & Politics), (continued)
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Wild west (was Guilds & Politics),
JC Lawrence claw#under,Eng.Sun.COM, Tue 06 Jan 1998, 02:29 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Wild west (was Guilds & Politics),
JC Lawrence claw#under,Eng.Sun.COM, Tue 06 Jan 1998, 20:52 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Wild west (was Guilds & Politics),
JC Lawrence claw#under,Eng.Sun.COM, Tue 06 Jan 1998, 23:02 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Wild west (was Guilds & Politics),
JC Lawrence claw#under,Eng.Sun.COM, Tue 06 Jan 1998, 23:37 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Wild west (was Guilds & Politics),
JC Lawrence claw#under,Eng.Sun.COM, Tue 06 Jan 1998, 23:45 GMT
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