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Re: Some odd harvesting going on?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Oct 9 09:50:58 2008

To: "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:44:57 EDT."
	<20081009094457.37724c69.darcy@druid.net>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:50:13 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

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On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:44:57 EDT, "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" said:

> I don't have any argument with making the end-user's experience simpler
> and easier.  I do complain when that simplification is at the expense
> of others.  It's the difference between software that does some of your
> work and software that moves your work onto someone else's shoulders.

The problem being solved is that the average end-user is proving that
CM Kornbluth was right.  The meta-problem is that the average developer
is *also* proving Kornbluth correct...

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