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Re: Changes to Provisional Authority Records
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rchall@MIT.EDU)
Fri May 12 12:30:10 1995
From: rchall@MIT.EDU
To: ad-cat@MIT.EDU, gyoung@MIT.EDU, ganderso@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 May 1995 11:37:11 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 12:29:59 EDT
Brava, Jo ... It is, IMHO, not a compromise thing but an absolute
necessity!
Bobby, with five years of automated authority control experience,
Hall.
Jo Lynne writes:
* Would it be possible to choose one set of default values? Well, yes,
* it would be possible to arbitrarily choose one set as the default, but
* it will mean that, no matter which set you choose, most of the
* provisional authority records will be filled with incorrect values,
* and will need to be corrected manually.
*
* To me, it really defeats the purpose of having the system create
* authority records if most of those records then need to be corrected
* one by one by a human being. I would really, really like to avoid
* having to make this compromise.
*
* Jo Lynne
*
