Since this sort of thing is expected of me, I will note that we find ourselves between Scylla and Charybdis here.
Chris Craddock's formulation was open to the exception that Peter Relson took: there is fetch-protected storage the contents of which its owner is entirely free to make available to others. Peter's exception is logically impeccable. It did, however, seem to me to be a very special one; and I observed that it was. I still prefer the ROT that the contents of protected storage should not be made available to the unauthorized (in any but very special circumstances, when they are known procedurally to be innocuous.). To repeat myself now, Peter is nonetheless correct in the abstract. There is a long intellectual tradition which has it that the production of just one black swan is an unanswerable refutation of the proposition that all swans are white. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
