Alex Martelli wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > > qualification, you're quite likely to get such disclaimers. If you > > > don't want them, learn to ask about stopping your users from > > > ACCIDENTALLY doing X, and no reasonable respondant will fail to notice > > > the qualification. > > Interestingly, that is what I read from the OP, even without the > > "ACCIDENTALLY". > > While I followed the maxim "in the face of ambiguity, refuse the > temptation to guess" and didn't put words in his mouth that he had in > fact not said: I explained what he could do, and how that wouldn't work > IF he did NOT mean ``accidentally''. Not sure if this refusal to assume > that the requests are _necessarily_ sensible comes from my several years > of experience fielding question in this and other newsgroups, or my even > more years of experience as a consultant, both freelance and "in-house" > within large organizations... > I fully understand that, in the "formal" life. But I usually lax that on occasions like here.
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