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That is based on the assumption that consistency is necessary or desireable :) Of course, it is dear to an engineer's mind, but the case from the sociological point of view is far from clear-cut. In fact, way too many woes of human societies can be (at least indirectly) attributed to the misguided attempts to enforce consistency. --vadim > It said that there > needs to be one root, regardless of how that is chosen. The notion > that "the various operators act as they best see fit" is precisely the > kind of thing we want to discourage, since that leads towards > inconsistency. > > --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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