On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Rob Arends wrote: > As a programmer yourself, I understand that you *would* say, > "I think that by having users to lookup a URL with a full explanation of > error codes should be enough." > > but, lets face it, users are not that smart. > I mean *I* don't have a problem with following a URL to find my answers, but > if you were only just manageing to use email (some of my users are real > novices) then your position on error messages makes their life more > difficult. > > I don't propose that you put the full text into the displayed error message > as that can become quite long. > The suggestion by Sonke Ruempler of a message file, means that you can have > your short cryptic messages by default, and the administrators out there can > change them suit their users. > > A thought I had was to publish the error message detail, on a web server and > then have the error text as a url to the bookmarked page. (An extention of > what you have now). > Either way if the standard messages are maintained in a file, then we can > customise IF we need to. > I wouldn't expect it to be that hard to implement - just have a lookup by > error number.
If someone is willing to create a POD doc that describe error meesages, I could open a new chapter inside the XMail doc ( or keep it as a separate doc inside the /doc subdirectory ). - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
