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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> filepro-list-bounces@lists.celestial.com
[mailto:filepro-list-bounces@lists.celestial.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Art
Moore<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 25, 2004 1:32 PM<BR><B>To:</B> filePro
List<BR><B>Subject:</B> OT:Fairlight on 'Stupidity'<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In all my years as a member of this list I have
never done what I am about to do. Nor do I ever anticipate doing
anything like it again. But, Fairlight's response to a post entitled
"OT: MS and e-mail' was more than I could take. So on behalf of all the
'stupids' out here I decided something had to be said.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Fairlight,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Perhaps you have forgotten the day you couldn't
spell Perl or filePro. Since even YOU had to start from somewhere does
that make you a 'stupid for sometime in your life? Obviously from your
arrogant post promulgating your greatness it wasn't for long
though.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Remember, without us 'stupids' of the world you
wouldn't have the opportunity to include the 'stupidity' charge in your
billings. You would have to compete at a level where
you might be the 'cluebie'.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What rings MOST STUPID to me is YOUR
ATTITUDE.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is my last word on this no
matter...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Art Moore</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=091493619-25052004><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Art,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=091493619-25052004><FONT face=Arial size=2>Fairlight is
relating a story of what someone, who is the system admin, did
stupidly. You are assuming that this admin was "green", If so, he
should not be a system administrator. If he is experienced, then he did
a stupid thing as he should have known better.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=091493619-25052004><FONT face=Arial size=2>Also, he did
not identify this person or what company he/she worked for. All he
said that this admin did a dumb thing.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=091493619-25052004><FONT face=Arial size=2>There have been
time where I have screwed up royally and I have over 20 years
experience. I have been lucky in that my clients tend to follow the
backup procedures I have set up for them and I have been able to recover most
of the time. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=091493619-25052004><FONT face=Arial size=2>However, one
mistake cost me $5,000.00 with one of my major accounts. They had messed
up an ASN to their major account and to get it out before they closed for the
evening, I had to comment out 1 line of code, We transmitted the ASN
. But in the rush to leave for the evening, I didn't take the comment
out and the problem wasn't discovered until 3 weeks later when they started to
get chargeback's from their customer. I found the problem, corrected it
and ate the loss. By the way, the total chargeback was
$15,000.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=091493619-25052004><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was stupid for
not copying the ASN program to a new name and using the "new" version for that
one time transmission. This is the procedure I use now when I have a 1
time problem at any clients.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=091493619-25052004><FONT face=Arial size=2>So, if Fairlight
wants to use this story, he can call me stupid for doing what I
did.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Richard Kreiss<BR>GCC Consulting </FONT></P></SPAN></DIV>
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