[arachne] Re: I found it!!! was No dialing

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Hi Jason,
                      I'm sorry, but I don't understand
what point your trying to make.

Eric

On Mon, 01 May 2006 19:29:40 -0500 Jason Dodd <jasorn@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> 
> Not to rain on the parade but isn't it pretty common for installers 
> to 
> copy the files to a backup location instead of overwriting them and 
> then 
> the note reads that will happen and what the location on the backup 
> is?
> 
> Greg Mayman wrote:
> > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> >
> > On Mon, 1 May 2006 02:53:05 -0400, Eric S. Emerson wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> >>     
> >
> >   
> >> Hi Greg M.,
> >>                  We put that note there at the
> >> beginning of the installation to help save
> >> the "installer" and inform him what was
> >> about to happen. That way the user/installer
> >> can make an informed decision. I hope that
> >> a newbie would be smart enough to read it...
> >> however...I realize that some of the old fogies
> >> know too much already, so....of course they
> >> will refuse to read it...and ...some of them will
> >> consequently experience some difficulty.....
> >>     
> >
> > I was being ironical. But you have summed it up pretty well.
> >
> >
> >   
> >> what more can one do?   Send the "information
> >> police" to their door with a restraining order?
> >> "You are here by notified that you are prohibitied
> >> from installing Arachne until you have sworn to
> >> thoroughly read and absorb all installation
> >> instructions, under penalty of loss of your
> >> modem connection."
> >>     
> >
> > LOL! Yeah, that might do it <GGGGGGG>
> >
> >
> > .   ,-./\      from Greg Mayman, in Adelaide, South Australia
> > .
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