Subj : Perl Stuff
To   : Russ Johnson
From : David Drummond
Date : Tue Aug 28 2001 11:28 pm

Russ

27 Aug 01 19:22, Russ Johnson wrote to David Drummond:

 >> I'm sorry, I thought your machine _was_ rumblefish in the tripwire.com
 >> domain...

 RJ> Rumblefish is my machine at work, not the machine at home that I 
 RJ> receive my own email on. :)

Ah.

 >>> If we start making allowances for those that can't or won't follow
 >>> instructions, then there's no point in having standards.
 >> It's called "user friendly"....

 RJ> When do we decide that breaking standards for inane people is too 
 RJ> much? 

Sorry, you'll have to ask Bill that one...

 RJ> If I write a program that has to have the letter 'A' pushed to 
 RJ> successfully complete, do I also have to write it in such a way that 
 RJ> it will successfully complete the same task for any other key?

No, but they should be able to click on the little picture of the aardvark, or 
tab the cursor down to the icon and then press enter.

Regards,
David

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