> In a previous life I worked at a University that omitted sidewalks from > a large campus expansion. Sidewalks were added later, on the most > "well-worn trails"...... :-)
The masses don't always get it right. A warning story to go with that one. Locally a planned path ran along a ridge of ground. Everyone took the shortcut so the council gave in and moved the path. Now the people who originally built it were smart people. The people who took the shortcut were optimising for their usual case only. Every time there was heavy rain the new path became a canal. Lesson: Even if you believe the people wearing the trails are behaving rationally the sum of individual optimum choices is not usually the right answer. And boy oh boy is that so often true for security... Alan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
