Thanks, Richard --  I appreciate the insight.   I've learned that you need
to specify what you do NOT want and rarely need to specify what you DO want
:-)   So your comments are relevant to me.

Scott

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Richard Corak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Scott,
>
> The goal of SYSTEM CONFIG is to be empty.  That is, you don't
> specify anything, and CP still runs.  Obviously impossible.
> In reality you should be required to specify only what CP can't
> figure out.  So, by default, every device is sensed to see what
> it is; every device that can be brought online is brought online.
> The hope is that the person who maintains SYSTEM CONFIG not be
> bothered by mundane things like changes in device addresses.
>
> ACCEPTED exists only to undo NOTACCEPTED.
> ONLINE only to undo OFFLINE.
> etc.
>
> One could argue that this concept of "do nothing" could have been
> applied to other things, like USER_VOLUME_INCLUDE.  But it wasn't.
> C'est la vie.
>
> Richard Corak
>

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