In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Randy Bush writes:
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>> It isn't just that they are wasting my time. They are also wasting their
>> own time. It's the overall lack efficiency that bothers me ;-]
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>i suspect you have a datapoint on how they're doing financially.
>they ain't stoopid. they'll deal with it when the cost/benefit
>gets high enough on their priority list. isn't the first time
>that good s&m covers some technical gaps, and won't be the last.
>
To quote a science fiction story I'm fond of, "efficiency depends on
what you want to effish".
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb