You are absolutely right Civileme!
Bambi
Civileme wrote:
>
> Hoyt wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Civileme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 1:34 AM
> > Subject: [expert] RIGHT CLICK--NEW -> Folder
> >
> > >
> > > Are you folks who are complaining running as _root_?
> > >
> > > This is something not to be done, for many reasons, including the fact
> > that you
> > > get kicked from most IRC servers.
> > >
> >
> > I find it arrogant that Mandrake would deliberatly cripple the functionality
> > of programs in order to prohibit certain behavior that they have decided is
> > inappropriate. This kind of "I know better than you" unwelcomed
> > paternalistic coercion is awfully Microsoft-ish. Is this the direction
> > Mandrake is heading? Yuck!
> >
> > Hoyt
>
> Well, talk to the folks out on irc or try to run irc as root and see what
> happens. Most servers out there will log you off with a message, and not
> always a nice one.
>
> "Don't irc as root"
>
> was about the most polite I got.
>
> Anyway, nothing is prevented, just made a little harder to do, so that you
> remember you are in root. How do you think I stumbled across the server
> behavior? I appreciate the reminder so I don't endanger myself quite so much.
>
> Civileme
