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Date:      Fri, 20 Jul 2001 19:15:43 +0200
From:      Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
To:        Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [OT] POLA? (was Re: Default retry behaviour for mount_nfs)
Message-ID:  <3B58673F.E3BFC0F3@i-clue.de>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107192247320.73652-100000@beppo> <3B585F1F.C6FCB9AC@mindspring.com> <3B58601D.ACB852A5@iowna.com>

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Bill Moran wrote:
> 
> > > > Sometimes the stick of POLA should be broken.
> 
> Off topic, I know, but it's going to bother me.
> 
> What's POLA?

Policy Of Least Astonishment -- doing changes in a way which will annoy
the least number of users.

HTH
-Christoph Sold

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