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Re: What is "system events" ?
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Re: What is "system events" ?


  • Subject: Re: What is "system events" ?
  • From: Steve Mills <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 00:32:21 -0500

On Oct 21, 2017, at 00:25:47, Jean-Christophe Helary
<email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Oct 21, 2017, at 12:49, Steve Mills <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> I get annoyed by systems which cause you to do more work than need be done.
>> These are computers - they should do things the right way.
>
> Unless somebody codes them to do things that way, that won't happen.
> Computers are not sentients who "know" what's right.

Well yeah. And most mailing list owners (not Apple) code them the right way, so
the user need only hit Reply and everything works right.

> Ok, so you're saying that they're getting an error message because they were
> careless when they replied? Good grief.

Pay attention. Most messages to a mailing list are NOT crossposted, so people
don't aren't expecting their usual action to cause an error. This isn't that
hard to understand.

> Spend 5 minutes on it today and you'll be less annoyed *all the times* you
> need to reply to the list.

Except when I'm not using Mail, which is 8 hours a day.

> Now, do you have an extra insight on System Events ? Because that's the real
> reason why I'm here. Not to discuss the intricacies of Apple's mailing system

Then stop replying to my messages if you don't understand.

> or whether what I did was morally good or bad.

It wasn't a moral thing. It was a careless thing.

--
Steve Mills
Drummer, Mac geek

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