From: "Ernest Lilley" <elilley at mindspring.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Computer problems at work
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 09:42:25 -0400

Sorry. My mistake.

Naturally, one should keep in mind that I may only seem to be sorry, happen
to be in a state that's functionally equivalent to being sorry, pretending
to be sorry, or giving a misleading error message.

Ernest Lilley

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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 9:38 AM
To: WSFAlist at WSFA.org
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Computer problems at work

> elilley at mindspring.com 6/21/2005 9:31:43 AM >>>
>Keith comments: A misleading error message is even worse than one
>that
>doesn't mean anything at all...
>
>Not so. Humans give misleading error messages all the time.

Not just error messages...

mjw