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Subject:Re: No users! From:"Wollt, Richard C" <Richard -dot- Wollt -at- UNISYS -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 9 Feb 1999 12:18:32 -0500
Someone, somewhere, convinced marketing that clients sounded more
professional than customers, and like a virus, the term clients is now
showing up everywhere.
If I want the purchaser of the item to know or do something, I'll refer to
the customer (or client, if I must), while If I want the person sitting at
the computer, running the program, to do it I refer to the User.
richard -dot- wollt -at- unisys -dot- com
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