O/T Explaining things to Users

[Dave Korn]

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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