Re: Stallman and enable-local-variables in bugtraq-digest V1 #64

[wrf () ecse rpi edu (Wm Randolph Franklin)]

Concerning:

> From: Dave Goldberg <dsg () blackbird mitre org> 
> Date: Tue, 06 Dec 1994 09:00:26 -0500
> Subject: Re: Virus's -- This is an Emacs bomb 
>
> Yeah, I've always wondered why Stallman et al, when they wrote v19,
> left enable-local-variables to t when they should have followed what
> they did with enable-local-eval which is set to query the user.  At
> least it can be turned off or set to query in site-start.el or
> default.el.

Stallman seems prone to that sort of error.  One of his releases a
few years back had something like a 'chmod 777' buried deep in a
shell file.  I can't remember the details, but do remember that
the person who reported to the net it was outraged.  Seemed to
think that it was deliberate.

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