-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/09/07 00:12, Patrick TJ McPhee wrote: [snip] > > To be fair, this is not "the tax system". It's a staging database > used for electronic filing, and it's pretty common to use typeless > databases in the first stage of that sort of application. Why? Why not filter out the obvious errors AEAP[*] in the data stream? [*] As Early As Possible -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF8h/MS9HxQb37XmcRAuF2AKCL7qA4NW6O5foRtQW3uDzHtg1FOQCgwnYh BowoxdVktlw9VoqBSXON9MU= =RNHI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
