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RE: O/T Explaining things to Users
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'ooops'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 16:41:07 +0100
- Subject: RE: O/T Explaining things to Users
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
On 04 September 2006 16:18, zzapper wrote:
> Hi nothing to do with CYgwin but I need to let off steam!
>
> One of our clients has set up one of his mail rules incorrectly,
>
> eg
> Instead of say
>
> peter@companydomain
PCYM! That's a real domain!
Domain name:
companydomain.co.uk
Relevant dates:
Registered on: 13-Oct-2002
Renewal date: 13-Oct-2006
Last updated: 15-Oct-2004
Name servers:
dns.fasthosts.co.uk
dns1.fasthosts.co.uk
WHOIS lookup made at 16:23:10 04-Sep-2006
> peter.jones@yahoo!
That's bound to be a real address as well!
> It's kind of lonely being the techie when your users really have no idea!
I suggest you let off steam by reading a whole bunch of BOFH, then ranking
them for your top-ten favourite methods of user-destruction.
See also http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20010706
cheers,
DaveK
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