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From: P&D Schultz <>
Subject: Re: LDS (Morman) genealogy search engine
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 08:56:25 -0400


Joe Bananas wrote:

> On Fri, 04 Jun 1999 20:51:55 -0400, P&D Schultz <>
> wrote:
>
> >I didn't say "an error." I said information riddled with absurd errors that would
> >have been easy to avoid. That's crap.
> >
> And you are implying that this means all of the information is riddled
> with absurd errors that would have been easy to avoid. That's crap.

No I'm not. I'm saying that if one inquiry results in information riddled with absurd
errors that would have been easy to avoid, then that is evidence that it is the sort
of database which can deliver information riddled with absurd errors that would have
been easy to avoid, and that there is no way to guarantee that your next inquiry, or
you fifth or tenth inquiry, is not riddled with absurd errors that would have been
easy to avoid.

Also, the presence of such a database on line presents the possibility that
information riddled with absurd errors that would have been easy to avoid will become
more and more pervasive in lots of other databases because of lazy people copying and
pasting as a substitute for research.

//P. Schultz

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