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April 2001, Week 4

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Jeff Woods <[log in to unmask]>
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Jeff Woods <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 27 Apr 2001 13:21:56 -0600
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At  01:05 PM 4/27/01, you wrote:
>Does the acronym RTFM come to mind?

And a fine manual it is.  ;)

>So much for the tagline.

Something I learned while writing software for commercial sale (where any
idiot with access to a keyboard can [ab]use the software):  "You can make a
system idiot-proof and they'll just build a better idiot."  But it's still
worth making widely accessible systems gibberish-tolerant.  :)

--
Jeff Woods
"The great thing about Open Source software is that you can
have any color screen of death that you want." -- Gavin Scott

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