files recovery after rm?

[Mike Simpson]

In article <1989Nov10.012648.8942 at rpi.edu> tale at pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes:
>In <20551 at unix.cis.pitt.edu> yahoo at unix.cis.pitt.edu (Kenneth L Moore) writes:
>Ken> I am assuming that you use a mask of 700 like I do so that people
>Ken> can't overwrite your files.
>
>This gets funnier and funnier all the time.  Why would you a) assume
>anything of the sort, b) set your own umask to 700 and c) think that a
>file with 066 (---rw-rw-) permission can't be overwritten by other
>people?

He was confusing the terms "umask" and "permission mode" (referring
to "chmod").  Be kind.