On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
> > I'll be the first to admit that we've sometimes made mistakes. But they
> > are honest mistakes,
>
> that's not good enough. you need to be perfect, like the rest of us,
> or you shouldn't do it at all.
[ Sarcasm detection meter: Warning! Sarcasm detected in Chuq's post! ]
Seriously, I for one appreciate the fact that eGroups/Onelist was willing
to make that apology and explanation; I know that it is possible for
smaller-scale sysadmins to make mistakes, and the sysadmins of larger
systems are still only human... sooner or later, mistakes are bound to
happen. It is recognizing the mistakes, learning from them, and not
making them again that is what counts. As long as the folks at
eGroups/Onelist recognize this and learn from what happened, that's great.
They'll certainly be a step or three ahead of Microsoft, if they do.
Sometimes, I think Microsoft doesn't know how to admit a mistake, much
less learn from it. ;)
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