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Old Apr 14, 2004 | 10:11 am
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hnechets
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Join Date: May 1998
Location: Niceville, FL, USA
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Yes, I remember that issue, Dan, and thanks for the reply. I am nothing if not curious.

And, I am sure you want to get everything up and going 100%, tie up all the loose ends, etc. But could I suggest that you not spend too much time on this one? Sometimes a small flaw can be, I don't know, a delight. (Like when in the old FT, our registration dates were blank--I loved that, actually)

Like one computer program I was maintaining back in the 1980s, it was a non-graphical mainframe, line-oriented non-graphic thing. While I was making some changes to the program, which required the user to enter fields separated by semicolons (like: Harry;FlyerTalk;Add) I noticed a typo in an error message. The message should have read "Invalid Separator." Instead, it said, "Invalid Sepatator." The users vetoed my fixing that while I was in there. They LOVED the "Invalid Sepatator" message, said it humanized the thing and if I changed it, I'd be shark bait!

It's just my two cents, but don't break your backs fixing this....again, I actually like it...some of us have Join Dates of May 1998, and some of us have Join Dates of Dec 1969. I think the 1969-ers might not WANT to lose their "seniority."

And thanks again for such a *quick* response!

Last edited by hnechets; Apr 14, 2004 at 10:21 am
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