Allegedly, on or about 11 June 2013, Joe Zeff sent:
there's a reason that by default rm for root is aliased to rm -i.
Never rely on that, not to mention that there are plenty of other
commands that you can foolishly hose a system with. And you may not get
that alias if you use one of the alternative shells.
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.8.13-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon May 13 13:36:17 UTC 2013 x86_64
All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
public lists.