Mark Peugeot
Network One
>
> Bad idea. Most users are NOT engineers, and way too many users have the
> need to turn knobs they don't understand. Some of the hidden commands
> are only used by one person - the engineer who put them there. And the
> engineers have better things to do that try to explain what they are there
> for to people who aren't meant to be using them in the first place.
>
> It is like when people found 'attach' before it was released and it would
> crash a PM fairly routinely. People whined and complained about the
> instability - even after being told it wasn't meant to be used yet in the
> first place! It is bad enough when people demand an issue in a beta be
> fixed because it is hurting their production machines - after being warned
> that if they put it on production machines it is their risk. If users
> can't grasp the meaning of 'beta', forget engineering commands.
>
> The majority of users these days are NOT highly technical. Give them a
> good way to shoot themselves in the foot and they will - and then they'll
> blame Lucent for it.
>
> If someone who is skilled enough to dig commands out of a binary wants to
> play with them it is expected that they realize they are playing with fire
> and if they get burned they'll go 'oops, better not do that again' and move
> on.
>
> -MZ
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