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- From: dpkemp@afterlife.ncsc.mil (David P. Kemp)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: Someone in Sun Prod mgmt please read
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.231903.20168@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 23:19:03 GMT
- References: <binky-060892095941@192.100.87.190> <1992Aug8.000308.20539@moe.einstein.com>
- Organization: The Great Beyond
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- In article <1992Aug8.000308.20539@moe.einstein.com> jasper@iris.einstein.com (John Scott Peter XXXIII) writes:
- >In article <binky-060892095941@192.100.87.190>, binky@farallon.com (Jeffrey B. Williams) writes:
- >>
- >> The use of the term "slave" with respect to NIS servers shows little
- >> compassion on your part.
- >
- >I must have missed your previous post(s) where you berated the lack of
- >compassion of those who use the terms "die" and "kill" in regard to Unix
- >processes. It's embarrassing to talk about Unix with a group of people for
- >whom these terms have nothing but horrible connotations, since some of their
- >ancestors may have died.
-
- Sun must also remove the ABRT signal, since it is guaranteed to cause hard
- feelings all around. They thought they were being clever, leaving out
- a vowel, but we all know it means ABORT!
-
- I support anyone's right-to-life, as long as it's confined to screenblank
- programs, but the decision to abort a process must remain strictly
- between the user and her system manager.
-
- --
- Dave Kemp dpkemp@afterlife.ncsc.mil
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