RE: ugliest application logs ever?

"Mark Poepping" <[email protected]> Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:51:34 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.loganalysis
Message-ID <019701c85eec$703feeb0$0c767aa6@PoeppingT60>
Maybe distinguish 'ugly' from 'useless'?  There are a great many ugly log
entries that certainly could not be called useless.

Musing...
 . a log entry is useless when those who could benefit from it don't know it
exists or can't get to it;
 . a log entry is less than useless when it has tokens but no information
 . a log entry is ugly when it has redundant information, uses big words for
small ideas, or can't be parsed easily;
 . a log entry is stupid when it tries to tell someone who doesn't care,
something they can't possibly understand or do anything about.

Mark.