[19723] in Athena Bugs
Re: new netscape does bad things
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Wed Aug 29 14:05:07 2001
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:00:19 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: "t. belton" <tbelton@mit.edu>
Cc: bug-infoagents@mit.edu
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t. belton <tbelton@MIT.EDU> wrote on Wed, 29 Aug 2001
at 13:51:15 -0400 in <Pine.GSO.4.30L.0108291349170.14244-100000@iphigenia.mit.edu>:
> I don't get reports of this from anyone else, jhawk, nor have I seen it in
> any of the test systems. I'm going with Greg's theory that somehow you
> happened to hit the timing exactly wrong and your preferences got nuked.
> Both the reversion to 'lp' and the cache going back to your local
> directories are symptoms of Netscape prefs we specifically override with
> NON-defaults.
Well, I suppose we'll see, won't we. Just reporting.
For what it is worth, I must say, I continue to think that this
directive to "rm -rf .netscape/cache" is an excellent way to cause
users to hurt themselves a lot.
--jhawk
