[penguicon-general] anyone out there know....??

[Jeannie]

Sounds to me like he's trying to get you lost in the details. The bottom
line is, how does it effect the person using it? Which, it sounds like the
rule is trying to address.

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Lady Sarah <ladysarahmarie at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yea!  You and I both agree on this!  :)
>
> However, Mr. Programming Boy clams that since every time you change a page
> it queries the db again ("performs another search") that he IS complying
> with our rule, despite the fact that it doesn't appear that that way to the
> end-user.
>
> I'm afraid that we've set up a "do the rules apply to the way the site is
> *programmed* or the way it *appears*" issue... and I want to go with the
> way it appears to the end-user because I don't get to see their code and
> wouldn't understand it if I could.
>
> Thanks!  :)
>
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> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Wolfger <wolfger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Lady Sarah <ladysarahmarie at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > What he's saying is that he should be exempt from our rule of "no more
>> than
>> > 250 results per set of criteria entered" rule because
>>
>> I don't think we need to go any further. You have a rule. He wants an
>> exception. The reason/excuse for wanting this is, I think, irrelevant.
>> Nothing is broken on your site, he just wants to bend/break your
>> rules.
>>
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