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- From: G.Yanos@UIC.EDU
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.cwis-l
- Subject: Re: Justification for CWIS
- Message-ID: <CWIS-L%92111109394509@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 15:37:29 GMT
- Sender: "Campus-Wide Information Systems" <CWIS-L@WUVMD.BITNET>
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- Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
- Comments: To: Jeffrey R Kell <JEFF@UTCVM.BITNET>, cwis-l@wuvmd.BITNET
- In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 11 Nov 1992 10:05:32 EST
-
- On Wed, 11 Nov 1992 10:05:32 EST you said:
- >* Too many decisions are measured with a micrometer, marked with
- >* chalk, and cut with an axe.
-
- Woops. Jeff clearly never saw an expert use an ax. I'm not one, but I have
- watched. It is a precision tool, it just depends heavily on the skill of the
- person wielding it.
-
- CWISs too, depend on people's skill rather than technology. (Maybe rather
- than skill, it is energy and tenacity since we haven't had time to develop
- the skill yet.)
-