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From: Stephen Leake <Stephen.A.Leake@nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Another ammunition
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"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> 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 :).

> What was said was that there are safer defaults.

Why do the defaults matter if you are not going to use them?


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