Odd things happening...

[Tim Fischer]

True, but I'm not sure this instance is a similar situation to your sister.
This is completely incorrect rather than simply a confusing statement.

Tim Fischer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nancy Palmquist [mailto:nlp at vss3.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 4:13 PM
> To: tim.fischer at trinitytransport.com
> Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: Odd things happening...
> 
> Tim Fischer wrote:
> 
> > Well - thanks to all for the clarification on automatic processing.
> >
> > I've seen other issues with the documentation - where should I report
> those
> > in the future?
> 
> Programmers should be banned from writing documentation. I think the
> nature of a programmer's mind adjusts their use of language and they
> expect a normal person to understand terminology and concepts that are
> simple to them but incomprehensible to others.  They use terms that are
> very clear to them but have multiple or vague meanings to non-technical
> persons.
> 
> My sister (A newbie with a computer) told me her computer was getting a
> error.  She was very upset that it indicated she did something "illegal"
> which she would never do.  A word that should never be used in the
> context of a computer.  Who makes the laws for computer anyway and who
> says what she did (which was try to use the computer) was illegal.
> Another insult to a user from the Microsoft camp. A poor choice of words
> to indicate an error.
> 
> Nancy
> 
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