Hello Nick,

On Sun Jan 08 2017 10:46:56, Nick Andre wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 NB>> Only briefly. It became even more of a problem when people were
 NB>> updating sources in the middle of his projects and wondering why
 NB>> their shit wasn't working as they expected. With that there was
 NB>> the added headaches of compilation dates in between alphas. So he
 NB>> ended up going back to alpha releases only.

 NA> I remember times just reading some of that stuff and cringing when a
 NA> Sysop would explain this lengthly problem that apparently was the
 NA> fault of Mystic (and the author)... yet when James did his usual
 NA> troubleshooting-101, the problem was revealed to be some weird bizarre
 NA> way that the Sysop had installed and configured the thing in the first
 NA> place.

Yeah. There was definitely a lot of that. Probably moreso than real
problems, unfortunately. So much that the work in blocking any attempt at
stupidity on the operator's part in the software would probably have
required a complete rewrite in some cases.

Unless he picked up more work recently that requires a lot of travel (which
he's been in and out of for years), I'm guessing he's just hesitant to come
back to the idiocy. Usually programmers are fairly level headed, but
there's no way I would be able to deal with some people you guys run into
without ripping all my hair out and completely losing my mind.

Regards,
Nick

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