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#369532 - 10/10/2017 20:16 For Doug: The Enormous Spreadsheet that Runs the World's Mail
tfabris carpal tunnel Registered: 20/12/1999 Posts: 31600 Loc: Seattle, WA	Totally thought of you when I saw this: _________________________ Tony Fabris
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#369533 - 10/10/2017 22:22 Re: For Doug: The Enormous Spreadsheet that Runs the World's Mail [Re: tfabris]
tanstaafl. carpal tunnel Registered: 08/07/1999 Posts: 5549 Loc: Ajijic, Mexico	Now if only the video showed a way that I could access and poke around in that spreadsheet... tanstaafl. _________________________ "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch"
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#369534 - 10/10/2017 22:47 Re: For Doug: The Enormous Spreadsheet that Runs the World's Mail [Re: tfabris]
K447 old hand Registered: 29/05/2002 Posts: 798 Loc: near Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Somehow I am thinking that if it indeed was implemented as a spreadsheet, this would be a rather fragile and error prone creature. I could imagine thousands of updates per year, if not per week. Possibly by many different people. Scheduled rate changes, error detection and correction. Oy!
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