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robg: I can't believe you posted this "hint"!
Authored by: robg on Jan 13, '04 02:04:29AM
Mistakes will be made here by yours truly. It's happened before, and it will happen again -- it's a fact of life, and I won't promise that it's not going to happen again. There's simply too great a volume of information to deal with to commit to 100% mistake-free hints. Hence, I rely on the comment system to help catch those mistakes, so that future readers will see both the original hint and the follow on comments.

However, since I'm only one person, there's no way I can read every one of the thousands of comments that are posted to the site -- it's all I can do to try to keep up with the submissions and the email requests for help, pointers, references, etc. As much as I'd love to read every comment on the site, I'd much rather use my very sparse free time to visit with my wife and daughter.

Hence, if you really want to get my attention about something, send me an email -- I wouldn't have even seen this thread if a user hadn't sent me an email.

With all that said, yes, there's a mistake in this hint -- you don't need sudo. Now that it's been noted in the comments, I don't really see the point in changing the original article -- if I do that, I might as well then delete all the comments, since they'd be redundant.

However, in those cases where a hint is (a) proven brutally wrong or (b) proven to be very dangerous, I will go back and either amend or delete the hint as appropriate. I do NOT feel this hint falls in to that category.

If you don't like my approach, nor believe in my rationale, then you are, of course, free to start another hints site with a different approach. I'll just continue to do my best, and hope it's good enough for the majority...

-rob.

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robg: I can't believe you posted this "hint"!
Authored by: chabig on Jan 13, '04 10:45:38PM

"However, in those cases where a hint is (a) proven brutally wrong or (b) proven to be very dangerous, I will go back and either amend or delete the hint as appropriate. I do NOT feel this hint falls in to that category."

Rob, here's one that's brutally wrong, yet hasn't been deleted yet. How about taking another look at it please...

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031127211855401

Chris



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robg: I can't believe you posted this "hint"!
Authored by: kupietz on May 07, '04 05:38:55PM

4 months later it's still posted, but I'm glad it is. It may be brutally wrong but the response comments contain a ton of interesting information which I learned some useful and important things from. This is a more valuable site for having that post still on it than it would be without it.

Maybe all this site needs is a disclaimer: "Read all comments. Follow any of these hints at your own risk." I'd rather have more information available but some of it possibly dodgy, and have it left up to me to learn and determine what's good, than a "baby-proofed" site with 100% accurate info that I already knew.



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