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Pilot Error

/pī-lət er-ər/

[Sun: from aviation]

n. 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."