On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 18:30 -0400, Joseph S D Yao wrote:
All, this seems seriously NON-lame to me. Of course, testing and fixing the bug before it was put out there would have been less so.
Testing something like this would be difficult without duplicating everyone's email into a development system (thus possibly opening AOL up to a bad public relations or security problem). I'm sure that there were some initial tests. But given the complexity of differing emails it seems to me it would be hard to robustly test in development alone.
But think of this! A large company has actually admitted that it was wrong and backed out a problem! Isn't this what everyone always complains SHOULD be done? ;-) ;-) ;-)
Kudos to AOL for responding quickly, and for doing this on a Monday instead of a Friday afternoon. -Jim P.