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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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