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Subject:Re: Front Page Fussy From:Tracy Boyington <tracy_boyington -at- OKVOTECH -dot- ORG> Date:Tue, 19 Jan 1999 07:59:51 -0600
Actually, I did *not* write this, and I am no longer interested in
continuing the discussion. Please be a little more careful with your
attributions in the future. Thanks. :-)
Tracy
Peter Taylor wrote:
>
> >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.
