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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Subject: Re: RFC on my "abuse"
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.043640.19539@ms.uky.edu>
Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY
References: <1991Jun25.154257.7452@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1991Jun25.213406.18977@cis.ohio-state.edu> <25.Jun.91.180934.68@cogsci.cog.jhu.edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 04:36:40 GMT
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wjb@cogsci.cog.jhu.edu writes:

|	At the worst, the way this situation could be interpreted is that
|you are allowed N mistakes, but you aren't told when you done something wrong
|and when you reach N you get nailed to the wall.

Exactly. I don't think that the user was making a mistake, but if I
were, I'd use email or "write" to say "Uh, what are you doing?". If
(a) the script restarted itself and (b) I got no answer within a
reasonable amount of time, I'd have then taken stronger action.

This <BANG> "Stop or I'll shoot." mentality isn't very mental.

Sean

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