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  • From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@c...>
  • To: "John Cowan" <cowan@m...>
  • Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 18:53:25 -0000

Original Message From: "John Cowan"
> Pete Cordell scripsit:
>
>> How about:
>> "A designer knows he has achieved something right when everybody
>> complains he has done something wrong!"
>
> Unless the complaints are all the same.  The IBM PCjr chiclet keyboard
> really did [expletive deleted], just like everyone said it did.  It's when some are
> saying "Too much!" and others "Not enough!" that you know you've hit on
> the perfect compromise.

I was thinking more along the lines of if nobody complains, then nobody 
cares.  I don't think many complain about X.400 these days.

Pete Cordell
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Cowan" <cowan@m...>
To: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@c...>
Cc: <Toby.Considine@g...>; <xml-dev@l...>
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 6:41 PM
Subject: Re:  RE: Encoding charset of HTTP Basic Authentication


> Pete Cordell scripsit:
>
>> How about:
>> "A designer knows he has achieved something right when everybody
>> complains he has done something wrong!"
>
> Unless the complaints are all the same.  The IBM PCjr chiclet keyboard
> really did [expletive deleted], just like everyone said it did.  It's when some are
> saying "Too much!" and others "Not enough!" that you know you've hit on
> the perfect compromise.
>
> -- 
> John Cowan      <cowan@c...>       http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
>                Charles li reis, nostre emperesdre magnes,
>                Set anz totz pleinz ad ested in Espagnes. 



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