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INTERESTINGLY.....the other "threatening party" I mentioned, ALSO had a
terrific lack of attention to detail.
Hello ? is there a correlation here ?
high-tech entity with above "problem" vs. violent and threatening replies to
user's suggestions of bugs/errors/shortcomings.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Svendsen [mailto:esvendsen@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 11:56 PM
> To: The Funkhousers
> Cc: OmegaList; bob@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: A reply to Bob Pelletier of CSI
>
>
> I think that a data vendor should have monitoring programs that look for
> data dropouts, aberations, "unexpected" sequences, and program output
> absurdities.
>
> An order of magnitude change in CBOT data should be EASILY
> detected - and a
> notice posted of observations.
>
> There were several dropouts at the CME recently.
>
> There are a finite number of futures contracts.
>
> Have an employee visually check the data at the end of the day, using a
> spreadsheet, graph, tabularization, etc.
>
> It might be considered tedious, but a QUALITY datastream is what we are
> paying for.
>
> For a data vendor, whose livelyhood depends on the quality of his
> product, I
> am shocked at the apparent lack of attention to detail.
>
> Sincerely,
> Eric Svendsen
>
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