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Subject:Re: Front Page Fussy From:Peter Taylor <sector_five -at- HOTMAIL -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 18 Jan 1999 10:04:53 PST
>On 12-01-1999 23:41 Tracy Boyington answered Peter Taylor:
>
>>> Look at it this way: You paid around $75-$100 dollars to purchase
[snip]
>>been done wrong.* I consider that a failure for any product.
>
>Why do we maintain a double standard for quality here, Peter, one for
our
>work and one for our tools: You would not accept a manual holding 25%
of
>inaccurate information (I presume...). But for a piece of software by
>Microsoft you have a 'build-in' error factor.
>What makes this name so particular to reserve a softer quality to it?
>Any suggestions?
We took this thread off-line a while ago. I'm not particularly
interested in continuing it, but you may email me privately if you feel
strongly about it.
Peter Taylor.
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