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From: Joe Bananas< >
Subject: Re: LDS (Morman) genealogy search engine
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 13:17:11 GMT


On Sat, 05 Jun 1999 08:56:25 -0400, P&D Schultz <>
wrote:

>Joe Bananas wrote:
>> 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.
>
Yes, you are:
"To test the system. If it gives back crap which you know to be crap,
then there is no reason to enter someone you need information on.
Unless you want crap on them as well."

>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.
>
And if one enquiry is results in information that is perfectly
correct, then that is evidence that all the information is perfectly
correct?

>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.
>
Sure. I think there should be a law that no one can put any data
online until it is certified that it is all perfectly correct.

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