pilot error

( n.)

   [Sun:  from  aviation] A user's misconfiguration or misuse of a piece
   of  software,  producing  apparently buglike results (compare {UBD}).
   "Joe  Luser  reported  a  bug  in sendmail that causes it to generate
   bogus   headers."   "That's  not  a  bug,  that's  pilot  error.  His
   sendmail.cf is hosed." Compare {PEBKAC}, {UBD}, {ID10T}.

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