[MUD-Dev] Wild west (was Guilds & Politics)

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad <olag@ifi.uio.no>]

JC Lawrence <claw at 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.