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At 08:12 PM 12/9/2000 -0600, Rene wrote:
>I think part of the problem is that there are other things labeled
>DANGEROUS that actually do work fairly reliably (offhand, I'm thinking
>off the IDE config stuff..). Perhaps it needs to explicitely say
>'This is broken and is gauranteed to destroy your data. Do not use it'
>
>The 'DANGEROUS' label seems to suggest that it -may- destroy data, which
>leads to the 'it won't happen to me' mentality.

For what it's worth, I absolutely agree with this.  I have the same 
impression when I just see the word "dangerous".

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