Gumby@MCC.COM (David Vinayak Wallace) (02/07/89)
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 89 08:41 EST From: Jerry Roylance <glr@wheaties.ai.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 5 Feb 89 21:55:20 EST From: gumby@wheaties.ai.mit.edu (David Vinayak Wallace) Is there any good reason /com/mailer/noneai and nanotech are protected? I want to remove myself but can't. No good reason. I think the protection gets altered when paranoid people (those who set up their environment to prohibit group access by default) edit the mailing list files. Emacs, at least, should try to preserve the protection then when it writes a later version of an existing file, rather than using umask.
glr@WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU (Jerry Roylance) (02/08/89)
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 89 10:20 PST From: David Vinayak Wallace <Gumby@mcc.com> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 89 08:41 EST From: Jerry Roylance <glr@wheaties.ai.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 5 Feb 89 21:55:20 EST From: gumby@wheaties.ai.mit.edu (David Vinayak Wallace) Is there any good reason /com/mailer/noneai and nanotech are protected? I want to remove myself but can't. No good reason. I think the protection gets altered when paranoid people (those who set up their environment to prohibit group access by default) edit the mailing list files. Emacs, at least, should try to preserve the protection then when it writes a later version of an existing file, rather than using umask. Yes, Emacs and Zmacs don't alter the protection. The mechanism by which these files get write protected is unexplained. We'll put some men on it. Have your new neighbors arrived? Jerry