Doug Stewart on 22 May 2012 12:44:19 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] toy story2 nearly lost with rm*


I blame autocorrect. It apparently doesn't like rm. 

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Doug Stewart

On May 22, 2012, at 3:36 PM, bergman@merctech.com wrote:

> In the message dated: Tue, 22 May 2012 15:07:01 EDT,
> The pithy ruminations from Doug Stewart on 
> <Re: [PLUG] toy story2 nearly lost with rm*> were:
> => 
> => 
> => Which is why you should always alias rm to "rn -i" for root.
> 
> 
> I completely agree, and I do exactly the same thing.
> 
> Whenever I'm working as root, I'd be much happier reading Usenet news, and
> it's much safer for all my users' data. Sure, it has taken a bit of effort
> for me to keep porting the "rn" binary to newer OS releases machines since
> "rn" development stopped about 1995, but that just shows how important
> it is to use the One True Newsreader, not that heretical step-child "trn".
> 
> By the way, have you found a way to get gopher to work with that new "https"
> protocol?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark "the 'rn' user's meeting is held at 4PM on the last Friday every leap year" Bergman
> 
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> => Doug Stewart
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> => On May 22, 2012, at 2:45 PM, drew craig <axcraig@gmail.com> wrote:
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> => > Hi all, I brought this little story up in our meeting last evening.  The l=
> => ink goes to Linux Today.
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> => > pixars toy story2 nearly lost because of a linux command
> => >=20
> => > --=20
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> => <html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Which is why you should always alias rm to "rn -
> => i" for root.&nbsp;<br><br>--<div>Doug Stewart</div></div><div><br>On May 22, 2012, at 2:45 PM, d
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> => div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi all, I brought this little story up in our meeting las
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