Davide, 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. Just my 2cents worth. Rob :-) __________________________________________________________ Censorship can't eliminate evil; it can only kill freedom. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Davide Libenzi > Sent: Thursday, 20 March 2003 12:29 AM > To: XMail mailing list > Subject: [xmail] Re: user-defined error messages > > > > On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, [iso-8859-1] S=F6nke Ruempler wrote: > > > > > helo list and davide, > > > > we would like to have error messages that we can change > ourselves, becaus= > e > > out customers are mostly not technicans and don't understand > it. (somethi= > ng > > like the maximum of delivery attem......). could you add that to your > > todo-list? ;-) > > I think that by having users to lookup a URL with a full explanation of > error codes should be enough. > > > - 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] > > - 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]
