Do you verify the netlist before PCB layout?

[c4757p]

Then it seemed to be implied that I had pirated software and I took offense

I was just confused... I'd expect that if it knew it was pirated it'd do something a bit more effective than screwing with your ERC defaults...

[Bassman59]

bingo. hidden pins should be made illegal and fined !

Hidden power pins with implied and non-obvious net names? Take them out to the desert, give them a shovel, and tell them to dig a hole.

[free_electron]

Then it seemed to be implied that I had pirated software and I took offense

who implied that. All i said is that , the pirated versions have all the DRc's disabled' That was a JOKE

[AlfBaz]

who implied that. All i said is that , the pirated versions have all the DRc's disabled' That was a JOKE

Sorry free, I'm a bit touchy at the moment and its sometimes hard to pick up sarcasm from text 

[AlfBaz]

bingo. hidden pins should be made illegal and fined !

Hidden power pins with implied and non-obvious net names? Take them out to the desert, give them a shovel, and tell them to dig a hole.

I remember when I first come across this in protel for some of their parts in the supplied libs. It made a "little" sense as back in the day you mostly only needed Vcc @ 5V. I still didn't like it but if you selected "Show hidden pins", their placement was horrendous