From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
Cc: xemacs-review@xemacs.org, xemacs-beta@xemacs.org,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, bob@rattlesnake.com,
sxemacs-devel@sxemacs.org, steve@sxemacs.org
Subject: Re: Merry Xmas and a... OMG, what did you just say?
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 19:21:13 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1CkooL-0004HIC@rattlesnake.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wtuxxbyl.fsf@confusibombus.emacswiki.org> (message from Alex Schroeder on Sat, 01 Jan 2005 19:04:34 +0100)
> Or are you planning to be so irrelevant and obscure that no one takes
> someone else to court?
Why post such flame bait?
It is not flame bait. Security by obscurity is a major mechanism. In
some circumstances, it works. It is especially attractive to people
who figure that the work to which they contribute will never be taken
up sufficiently as to attract predators.
I am curious about your plans.
--
Robert J. Chassell
bob@rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8
http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-01 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-31 2:21 Merry Xmas and a... OMG, what did you just say? Steve Youngs
2004-12-31 13:05 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-12-31 20:51 ` Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson
2005-01-01 0:22 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-01-01 16:27 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-01 17:07 ` David Kastrup
2005-01-01 19:24 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-01-01 18:04 ` Alex Schroeder
2005-01-01 19:21 ` Robert J. Chassell [this message]
2005-01-01 23:00 ` Alex Schroeder
2005-01-02 1:16 ` Miles Bader
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