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-- [ From: Mark Olson * EMC.Ver #3.0 ] --

Tom et al:

I am suspicious that technology is being used as the scapegoat here.  As
Tom noted, popularity is not a logical reason so shut down a site.

I suspect that either privacy issues came up (my understanding was that
you could look up the assessment of any property in the city), or the
information available was causing more problems for the assessment folks
than it solved.

However, I will be the first to admit that this is uninformed
speculation on my part.  Anyone out there with some more solid
information they could share?

Mark Olson
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Date: Sunday, 14-Mar-99 01:05 PM

From: Ruta, Tom                \ Internet:    (rutat@cadvision.com)
To:   CIPS-L@hermes.csd.unb.ca \ Internet:    (cips-l@hermes.csd.unb.ca)

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

For anyone interested in seeing how NOT to use the Internet correctly,
take a peek at the so-called (and I use the term loosely) "Fair Share"
Market Value Assessment site from the City of Calgary at
http://www.gov.calgary.ab.ca/ .  Here is a perfectly good example of a
bunch of folks who purportedly believe in public access to information
but are clearly too inept to design a site that is able to sustain
reasonable web traffic. Rather than install limits, they just close the
whole thing off. Talk about a good way to breed public distrust.

Tom


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