A pox on people who type with ***'s on computer documents. Then JCPenney has them in their part number.
My most common discussion with business users regarding EDI is that computers are good at processing data really fast and they don't require weekends and holidays off but they are really lousy at managing our business relationships. I preach the gospel of picking up the phone. Don't let computers manage your relationship with your customers or vendors. On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Michael Mattias/LS <[email protected]> wrote: >> My favorite was a guy who "cut and pasted" data from an excel spreadsheet >> into a text field in a release, somehow managing to capture formatting >> from the >spreadsheet which converted (on an old mainframe) into a hex >> "bell" character during translation to an 830, totally bombing the whole >> system. That was a fun one! > > The other kind of new "gotcha" I've run into just in the last couple of > years is people who use the "@" character as an ANSI control delimiter.... > and then include email addresses in PER segments or in comments. That never > used to come up. > > (But "***HOT RUSH***" has been with us forever it seems). > > MCM > > ------------------------------------ ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
