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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (6839)	12/8/2004 6:00:27 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Respond to of 12465

re: "Web logs are often just junk. Lying on them is usually meaningless." Yep, just ask Hansen today how meaningless they are. <g> __________________________ Yes, you missed my point. Long before there existed "CPA"s, accountants knew anyway that botching records was still a bad thing. It just took a long process of formalizing and codifying a set of rules to make it official. Same rule set will eventually happen with administering an important website with money involved, and it will be down the road a bit. I'm not talking about little "My Mom&Pop Knitting Webstore" sites. I had little contact with Hansen. You and MacRandy had more. He may well be, apparently, a guy who meant well. Fair enough. But you don't alter those kinds of records, willingly. You'd be surprised at the hoops I went through with Ford's legal department just to change a silly logo graphic on lincolnmercury.com back on the 1998 version. Little home sites won't have, and don't need to have appreciation of this, but at the financial level and info level where A@P was going, Hansen screwed up, and got lucky his situation has closed as is. He "cooked the books" and there's no way to say, "Gee, I just didn't know this was changing a signficant record that would be important." You don't ever ever erase ... you archive to remove ... onto a tape, onto disc, whatever... You refuse any outright full removal. That's just the way you operate if you value your integrity and longevity. And if you don't, you deserve any and every misfortune coming to you.