So is there no consensus on this?
The first few responses were "yeah, I do it all the time!" and now the
thread responses are "I would never do that!" with rejoinders of "Damn
straight, buddy!" (I'm paraphrasing.)
Considering that this advice comes from the "classic computing
knowledge base" it doesn't seem too authoritative if people on this
list simultaneously subscribe to both points of view.
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