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Bruce Heerssen bruce at heerssen.com
Thu Nov 22 19:56:07 CST 2001


On Thursday 22 November 2001 17:08, Martin wrote:
> John Handelaar wrote on 22/11/01 12:59 pm
>
> >Turning 'Disable Mail' OFF and stopping your mail delivery
> >are syntactically opposite.  You're proposing we label
> >something as doing the precise opposite of what it will do.
>
> It's really confusing at the moment - it's a double negative.

Thanks martin, you explain it better than I.

> Ignoring the field names, Bruce got it spot on.
>
> To avoid confusion, we'll change the field names:

+1 - the only reason *not* to change the field names would be to preserve 
operability. But we could change the form handler also - no problem 
(probably, I haven't looked at the code yet). 

> >>> ------------------------
> >>> <a name="disable">
> >>> <strong> Mail delivery status</strong> <br>
> >>> Turn this <strong>off</strong> if you want to stop receiving mail
> >>> from thelist for a little while. [edit](Perhaps while on 
holiday)[/edit]<br>
> >>> <input type=radio name="maildelivery" value="0"> Off
> >>> <input type=radio name="maildelivery" value="1" CHECKED> On <p>
> >>> ------------------------
>
> Does that make more sense?
>

+1 - I like it.

-Bruce




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