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Re: How NOT to Use the Internet to Bolster Public Confidence

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From: Tom Ruta
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 00:00
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john_beamish@my-dejanews.com wrote:

...
>I'm of two minds here because they did, after all, install a limit.  It's just
>that the limit is zero.
>

Yeah, just like Henry Ford's axiom" "you can have any colour
as long as it is black".

>Without knowing more about the construction of the site (Are they required to
>host it on an internal server -- and that server is already overloaded
>handling other "stuff"?) it's difficult to assess the cause of the problem.
>

The construction of the City of Calgary's web site, is,
quite frankly irrelevant.  Surely the bozos running that can
figure out how to allow at least limited access.  Web hits
aren't exactly rocket science.

>As it is, Mississauga doesn't even seem to provide this information.
>

Well, by law they _have_ to (though not necessarily on the
web).  The point is that we have a systems that purports to
be accessible through technology yet it isn't.  What is
further galling is that the ads in Calgary continue to
trumpet this access even though it don't exist!  Our tax
dollars hard at work advertizing no existent systems...

Tom
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Subject: Re: How NOT to Use the Internet to Bolster Public Confidence
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