Re: Unrecoverable Data Icon

Subject: Re: Unrecoverable Data Icon
From: JoAnn Macken <earlygrp -at- EXECPC -dot- COM>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 07:24:00 -0500

At 10:05 AM 9/3/96 EDT, Cheryl Kidder wrote:

"Our problem is that once data is deleted in our system, it is not
recoverable. Because of this, we cannot use commonly accepted icons
such as a trash receptacle because the trash receptacles used by Mac
and Win95 enable the user to recover the data. In our system, the user
cannot recover data unless they restore from a backup."

My five-year-old son sat down with me to check my e-mail this morning
and insisted I read some messages to him. When I explained this one,
he said, "I know! Just put it in the toilet!"

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