why many plug-ins fail?

I was looking for X-mas gifts for friends and family and found Despair Inc's wonderful line of products. Of particular interest was this:
(url="http://"http://www.despair.com/ignorance.html")http://www.despair.com/ignorance.html(/url)

It reminded me of projects (not just EV related) I've seen which were obviously destined for failure.

-STH

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(This message has been edited by seant (edited 12-04-2000).)