Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!strath-cs!baird!jim From: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Dumb users Message-ID: Date: 23 May 91 12:31:16 GMT References: <1991May17.222525.6108@lokkur.dexter.mi.us> <1991May22.212051.29589@decuac.dec.com> <16242@smoke.brl.mil> Sender: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk Organization: Computer Science Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Glasgow, Scotland. Lines: 14 In-reply-to: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil's message of 23 May 91 01:45:31 GMT In article <16242@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes: In article <1991May22.212051.29589@decuac.dec.com> mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes: >rockwell@socrates.umd.edu (Raul Rockwell) writes: >>"It doesn't matter how smart the program is, a dumb user will always >> find a way to screw it up." -- Joanne Byrd > If you write software that even an idiot can use, only idiots >will use it. All generalizations are false. Including yours? ..... :-) Jim