On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 14:01, comex <com...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Jonatan Kilhamn > <jonatan.kilh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Card recordkeeping was harder than I thought. As you might have >> noticed, I have not yet produced a single correct report > > It looks to me like you're both making mistakes: some of his CoEs > against your Government reports have been incorrect, and nobody is > checking his other reports. He has an advantage due to automation > (his report will always be self-consistent, for example), and won't > dismiss messages as irrelevant because he's tracking everything (I > don't know if you've done this, but I've come close on instances), but > is still human. He might be a little more careful than you-- I don't > know, I don't scrutinize the DoG reports-- but he has made mistakes > and will continue to do so. > > For me, tracking the IBA is a relatively large amount of effort; for > BobTHJ, who's already reading every public message, tracking vs. not > tracking it is probably a very small amount after initially writing > code for the contract. Does that mean I should just let him track it? > I don't know, but whether in order to correct errors, to be able to > make stuff like the IBA site, and survive if BobTHJ throws in the > towel-- or merely because of ego-- I'm going to keep maintaining a > report. > FYI Tiger (and just to clarify) I don't think you've done a poor job as Poobah, nor do I think coppro did before you (apart from the scam). These offices require a massive amount of information to be tracked, it is inevitable that errors will arise. As comex has pointed out even with the benefit of automation I've made errors too. I think (were it not for the automation) that a lot of these errors would just go un-noticed....and maybe that's not a bad thing. However, because of the automation when it reveals an error the perfectionist in me requires that I CoE.
BobTHJ
