At 20:35 2002/06/29 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Users are not "stupid" !
Let me re-phrase my earlier comment: Many users are stupid. You may have intelligent users (I have some as well) but there are a lot of stupid people in the world, some of them are users on systems I'm responsible for, and in my experience they tend to be the ones that cause the most problems. >My users would ask you the point in time to turn an DvP into an FoP and the >implications to treasury. They might consider you "stupid" if you do not know what >they are talking about. Then they don't understand English. There is a large difference between stupidity and ignorance. If I simply don't know what "DvP" and "FoP" mean in this context, then I am ignorant. I would consider myself stupid if they gave me a reasonably clear explanation of what delivery versus payment and free of payment mean and in what context one was being changed into the other, and I still didn't understand why or when it should be done. Vis. my users, I think that anyone who understands enough to know that a /tmp directory exists, and to copy files into it, and that these files will eventually disappear, should be capable of understanding an e-mail which tells them that the files in /tmp are going to disappear following a scheduled re-boot. p.s. Having made the mistake of writing this message I don't intend to repeat it. I'm not posting anything else on this thread. If you're offended and/or want to argue with me, please e-mail me personally. -- Irony: Bill Gates claims to be making a stable Operating System, and Linus Torvalds claims to be taking over the world. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
