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To: J.L. Turner who wrote (1031)	12/18/1998 11:15:00 PM
From: Jeff Redman	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1361

Let me give you an example of a bug: I get data from a system from every store every day, if there is a change to a program by one of the teams who maintain the program they may send me bad data. I'll get a call if my program goes down, sometimes I solve the problem by deleting the bad record, then restart the job and it completes. The bad record did not effect the other data in the file, or data from another store or cause the program to be contaminated. All vendors, banks, etc., who send and receive data from us are being tested with our programs that have already been tested. If another company can not be compliant in time then we will not exchange data with them, we will either do business with someone else or process the data manually. Obviously we want the companies we do business with to be compliant so that we do not have to find someone else or waste the time to process the data manually, which would be more costly. This is not the end of the world disaster that many want to make it out to be, most of the companies we do business with will be compliant. The news media and others will hype this thing to death because a disaster scenario makes for more interesting news stories, it happens all the time, yet people never seem to "get it".