Dept of Utterly Useless Error Messages

[Mike McCarty]

Ed Greshko wrote:
> David G. Miller wrote:
> 
> 
>>Oh, come on.  I remember a fellow getting the message "Error in source
>>deck." from a programming class way back when (?? ALGOL on in an IBM
>>System/370 ??).
>>
>>Now that's a utterly useless error message.
> 
> 
> My favorite error message came from the telephone company's computer system.
> 
> "We're sorry.  Your call cannot be completed as dialed.  You must first dial
> a 1 for the call to be completed.".
> 
> Ahhhh, if you knew I had to dial 1 then why not just tell me and then
> complete the call for me?
> 

Because that would convert a call which the original dialler
would not know was a toll call into a toll call, without getting
confirmation.

Mike
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