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At a previous employer we had a policy that all passwords started with "/"
because of the sheer number of times someone typed the root password into a
public IRC channel.

Michael

On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 02/08/2017 03:36 PM, Kendall Nelson wrote:
>
>> Hello All!
>>
>> So I am sure we've all seen it: people writing terminal commands into
>> our project channels, misusing '/' commands, etc. But have any of you
>> actually done it?
>>
>> If any of you cores, ptls or other upstanding members of our wonderful
>> community have had one of these embarrassing experiences please reply! I
>> am writing an article for the SuperUser trying to make us all seem a
>> little more human to people new to the community and new to using IRC.
>> It can be scary asking questions to such a large group of smart people
>> and its even more off putting when we make mistakes in front of them.
>>
>> So please share your stories!
>>
>
> Hi!
>
> I can't tell you the number of times I've typed or pasted one of these:
>
> :wq
>
> or
>
> 1407gg
>
> or
>
> ggVG
>
> or
>
> :find nova/compute/resource_tracker.py
>
> or
>
> Vgq
>
> or
>
> tox -py27 -- --failing
>
> Such is the life of a keyboard-driven contributor I guess! :)
>
> -jay
>
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