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Re: List intolerance VS advocacy

To: John Brahy <John@AD2.com>
Subject: Re: List intolerance VS advocacy
From: Marc Espie <espie@nerim.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 20:41:48 +0200
Cc: misc@openbsd.org
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On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:13:05AM -0700, John Brahy wrote:
> It is better to make someone learn, then feed them a commandline they
> could mess up because they don't understand it. dd is a perfect example,
> what if they mix up if and of.

What a stupid example. What if you mix up ls and rm ?
Or newfs and mount ?

References:
- List intolerance VS advocacy
  - From: "Scott Sandeman-Allen (RSCorp)" <scott@rscorp.ab.ca>
- Re: List intolerance VS advocacy
  - From: Marc Matteo <marcm@lectroid.net>
- Re: List intolerance VS advocacy
  - From: Scott Francis <darkuncle@darkuncle.net>
- Re: List intolerance VS advocacy
  - From: "John Brahy" <John@AD2.com>

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