Skipping general offenses... > List manager: can we *please* just boot this guy until he comes back > as a real person? It's getting old. Is it _that_ annoying to you? I could just keep silent if it is so, no "booting" required. Though I have to say I don't understand how a handful of emails to a mailing list someone happens to read can irritate them to such extent. In passing, instead of a threat you could have simply let the first response be. Were it really a piece of useless text, it would rot on its own. --On Thursday, August 21, 2008 10:11 AM -0700 ron minnich <rminnich <at> gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Eris Discordia > <eris.discordia <at> gmail.com> wrote: > >> Basically, a terminal should not hold _any_ information on its users. >> Where does the security of not keeping authentication information on a >> so-called terminal go when you _keep_ it on the "terminal?" But with >> multiple users you're going to need authentication. Right? > > Eris, this is getting a little boring. Are you really this ignorant of > what's going on? I don't mind ignorance > per se but you keep wasting people's time as they try to explain CS > 101 to you. Maybe you could start a blog and we could > all ignore it -- it's much easier that way. > >> >> My impression: the UNIX authentication "farce" happened because UNIX >> began as a replacement to a time-sharing system for more or less >> physically secure computers but then was downsized to an OS--many OS's, >> in fact--also usable on personal computers, e.g. 386BSD. > > Your impression? Well, that's one way to go at it.. Of course, there > is the option of acquiring knowledge. It is more work however. > > If this is your picture of what happened then you need to go back and > do some reading. > > You leave the "impression", to me anyway, that you read a lot but I > can not tell that you actually do much of anything. And, to top it > off, you exist only as an imaginary wikipedia entry. > > List manager: can we *please* just boot this guy until he comes back > as a real person? It's getting old. > > ron >