On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 12:17:37AM -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> On Mon, 16 May 2005 20:39:32 +0000 (GMT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Paul)
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Ok everyone, PAY ATTENTION! Drop whatevery your doing for the next
> > five minutes and READ THIS!!
> >
[ ... ]
>
> Well, that's what you get for having a name that's made up of two first
> names. :-)
>
> Seriously, where I work (the U.S. Postal Service), people with names
> like yours cause no end of confusion and grief, particularly when it
> comes to the forwarding of mail, as our oh-so-cleverly designed (read:
> brain-damaged) Central Forwarding System (CFS) uses the first four
> letters of the last name, along with the last three digits of the old
> address (leading zero-padded, if need be), to distinguish one forwarding
> order from another. And then you have magazine and newspaper
> publishers, as well as other correspondents, who choose to invert the
> order of names, for reasons known only to them and their Higher Power,
> if they have one. You can just imagine the uproarious, madcap fun that
> ensues.
>
> Sorry, but I've no sympathy at all. Bloody double first-namers.
> You'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes. :-)
>
*Gawk*!!!! I knew the US Postal "Service" was screwed up,
but not this __this__ degree. ...Well, (*sigh*).
Seriously, I hereby propose that everyone, every human,
and most mammals be designed by a string of DIGITS.
Befor people laugh, just think about thr billions of
advantages.
gary
(aka 45689334177027483315780)
--
Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix
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