Reply to post: Surely since forever there have always been unintended consequences. It's par for the course ....

It's always DNS, especially when a sysadmin makes a hash of their semicolons

amanfromMars 1 Silver badge

Surely since forever there have always been unintended consequences. It's par for the course ....

....... and results can be brutal.

Mindful of his own brush with a pink slip, Hugo upped the paranoia of the tool from merely warning of errors to issuing a full-on stop when validation failed.

Such considerations have moved on and into other fields of endeavour peddling and pimping/pumping and dumping content to/of the masses. And for probably pretty much very similar reasons .... maintenance of status quo conditions, no matter what the perilous state it may be in. But it is no fix, nor even an effective tool whenever wielded, for it then has invariably revealed a systemic weakness which the program/platform has scant defence against?

The following is a current example of the tool type/program gripe ......

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