On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 6:25 AM, Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> wrote: > > One problem I see with that is that (by default at least) it violates the > UNIX’s > "Silence is Golden" principle: > > http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch11s09.html
Good call. ESR gives 3 reasons: | Programs that babble don't tend to play well with other programs. This will not be the case as any redirection will disable the notice. | The user's vertical screen space is precious. That is true; but if it becomes a problem the notice tells the user how to disable it. | Junk messages are a careless waste of the human user's bandwidth. Here I will argue that the notice only becomes a junk message if the readers are already aware of the content; and in this case they also know how to disable it. Better ideas are still welcome. /Ole
