[17834] in Athena Bugs
Re: clear-netscape-password is just dumb
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Fri May 12 13:50:58 2000
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To: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
cc: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>, bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU, web-agents@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 May 2000 13:49:13 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 13:50:49 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
In message <Pine.GSO.4.21L.0005121345140.21537-100000@all-night-tool.mit.edu>,
"t. belton" writes:
>Not sure I understand the objection. Was the space in your example
>accidental, or is the implication that people assume 'clear' is the
>program/script and -netscape-password an argument? Seems to me the answer
>there is to tell users it's all one word.
The problem is that many people seem to fail to clearly
communicate the fact that it all one word, and it leads to a massive
amount of confusion, because the users do not get errors from
typing the wrong form.
I always say "all one word, no spaces," but not everyone seems to be
quite so particularly anal in their communications, and this leads to
problems.
--jhawk
