Aucbvax.2293
fa.works
utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!works
Wed Jul 15 07:43:18 1981

>From ihnss!mhtsa!harpo!chico!esquire!nrh@Berkeley Wed Jul 15 07:41:51 1981
Phooey!  This "endless hierarchy" of deletes is just plain silly!
Given delete and EXPUNGE, what if someone wants a file that has
been EXPUNGED?  Should there be a little "Hardy Boys" icon which
given the burned junk from an "expunged wastebasket" icon could
re-construct (perhaps only in part) what was on the burnt paper
(the expunged file)?

And how about a little "paper shredder" icon so you could prevent
the retrieval of an EXPUNGED file?  And if you didn't want to
trust your users to do that, you could always have a "bogus paper
shredder" icon which doesn't really shred things, but merely drops
them in the wastebasket.

On the other hand, with regular backups, and an "archives" icon,
perhaps you could simply trust your users most of the time, and
recover from backup when that failed (perhaps a "god from the
machine" icon  could be shown disgorging the "lost" files).



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