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From: foster@jumbly.enet.dec.com (Steven Fruitbat Foster)
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Subject: Re: Followup Containment (Was Re: followups to "*** ... *** )
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Date: 6 Jul 90 11:32:53 GMT
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In article <37429@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, gwh@monsoon.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert) writes...

>Get the following warning message along with the current "Sure you want to
>do this?" :

Are you *really* sure you want to do this?
You didn't flame anybody *too* badly, did you?
You've read the guidelines for new users recently, haven't you?
You aren't telling little fibs in reply to these questions?
Have you signed the disclaimer saying "I warned you"?
OK, on your own head be it... Article posted.

It's a well-documented feature of human beings that when they become familiar
with these questions, they just type 'y' unconciously, without thinking
about it. Hands up all those who typed 'y' in the middle of deleting some
of twenty files, and meant 'n'? Yes, I thought so.

The newsreader (nasty thing though it was) wouldn't let you do anything
for the first time unless you read three tons of introductory warnings. This,
to me, is a much more preferable method than making me automatically press
'y' one more time.

Fruitbat.

PS: Of course, I've built an extra question into my editor macro... :^P

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