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.

ID10T
PEBKAC
UBD
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