Am I the only person who's sick and tired of all manner of error messages that are being splattered across all open console logins just because some programmer wants to do that? Example: Is it really necessary for ordinary users to get the following from cdparanoia: cdparanoia: Using deprecated /dev/sg mechanism instead of SG_IO on the actual device will also suggest you mig As if the ordinary user (who, in my instance didn't even launch the process) could do anything about such a condition. Heck, I'd warrant most users wouldn't even understand it. Yet, in this example, this messages comes up every minute or so. I could come up with other examples, but I think my point is sufficiently illustrated. Clearly such messages should go to logs. But, isn't this broadcast abuse? I think so and dearly wish we had a mechanism to block such abuse. Janina
