FUP ate my db (and I did RTFM)

• Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 10:00:13 PDT
• From:
  Judy Anderson <yduj@cs.stanford.edu>
• In-reply-to: dg@dcs.st-and.ac.uk's message of Mon, 27 May 1996 05:58:52 PDT <7585.9605271258@dufftown.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk>
• Posted-Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 10:00:13 -0700 (PDT)

I haven't been following this discussion closely, but some of the
responses I see are "why are you doing <illegal thing X>"---that's not
a proper kind of response.  If there's a MOO eating bug, even if the
user has to do something really grotty to trigger it, FUP should armor
itself against the user, returning E_INVARG or whatever the
appropriate error is for that particular illegal thing.  How does that
saying go?  "It's not good enough to be foolproof---fools are too
ingenious!"

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