From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,17e99293e94a7e6f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-07 14:02:06 PST Message-ID: <3E1B4CED.6080206@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Another ammunition References: <3E11C888.1060102@cogeco.ca> <3E19BF66.2050506@cogeco.ca> <3E1A004F.7010703@cogeco.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 16:55:57 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1041976559 198.96.47.195 (Tue, 07 Jan 2003 16:55:59 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 16:55:59 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!torn!webster!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32708 Date: 2003-01-07T16:55:57-05:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake wrote: > "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" writes: >>Stephen Leake wrote: >> >>>No tool should be used with only the default command line parameters; >> >>Nobody said that this should be the case. Nobody. So why harp >>about this? > > Because you and others keep bringing it up :). But I never said this 8-) >>What was said was that there are safer defaults. > > Why do the defaults matter if you are not going to use them? Well this is precisely why I don't understand your resistance to the idea! You say "you never should..." and "I never do..." and yet all of the resistance to changing the default is coming from you, LOL. I am in favour of changing the default for the various reasons I have already stated. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg