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Subject:Chat: Great error messages From:Geoff Hart <geoff-h -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA> Date:Fri, 13 Feb 1998 08:51:08 +0000
My all-time favorite error message is "XXXX has happened. Abort,
retry, fail?" Does anyone else wonder why nobody's tried a
class-action suit against Microsoft to get this thing changed to
something useful that normal humans can understand?
--Geoff Hart @8^{)}
geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
