Hi, I guess we shold also remove rm. That program can be downright nasty in the hands of the uninitiated. What about mkfs? oh, man, the kind of damage _that_ does. Oh, you say that that can only harm the local machine? Well, we should take away all the MTA's then (is spam not 80% of all traffic now?). And all the mail user againts (quite dangerous in the hands of the uninitiated, and can reall mess up peoples mailboxes).
Since when have we refused to package things cause they are ``dangerous'' or not the right religion? Stopping egg drop is a bad precedent (it is not as if egg drop is not freely available at that). If you do not make mistakes, you can't learn that much either. >>"Remco" == Remco Blaakmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Remco> This has been discussed before, after you proposed to do this Remco> on 'Mon, 17 Nov 1997 07:34:31 -0500'. The outcome was that it Remco> might be too dangerous to package a program that can do as much Remco> damage as an IRC bot can do when it is improperly Remco> configured. You might want to check out the discussion at Remco> http://www.nl.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9711/threads.html#00801 Remco> The consensus about this may have changed since then, so I'm Remco> not saying you should not package it. However, think twice and Remco> discuss it on debian-devel before you do so. In this case, I think the consensus would not be achievable. I for one shall oppose any attempts to bann a package cause it may be to dangerous for our users. This is not an elite cabal. I see that netgod has already uploaded; if he backs out, take this as an intent to package eggdrop. I apologize of this sounds confrontational; that was not my intent, but it has begun to sound that way (even to me ;-) manoj -- New York is a jungle, they tell you. You could go further, and say that New York is a jungle. New York *is a jungle.* Beneath the columns of the old rain forest, made of melting macadam, the mean Limpopo of swamped Ninth Avenue bears an angry argosy of crocs and dragons, tiger fish, noise machines, sweating rainmakers. On the corners stand witchdoctors and headhunters, babbling voodoo-men -- the natives, the jungle-smart natives. And at night, under the equatorial overgrowth and heat-holding cloud cover, you hear the ragged parrot-hoot and monkeysqueak of the sirens, and then fires flower to ward off monsters. Careful: the streets are sprung with pits and nets and traps. Hire a guide. Pack your snakebite gook and your blowdart serum. Take it seriously. You have to get a bit jungle-wise. Martin Amis, _Money_ Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/> Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]