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On Mon, 1 May 1995 StosselAtl@aol.com wrote:

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> > Unless my math's wrong or the estimate is off, you can have the job done 
> > in a month . . . by hiring 168 typists.
> 
> And on Fri, 28, Apr 1995, JJ Linden wrote:
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> >Or in a day, with a working staff of 5,040 people.
> 
> I think you're both right. Either way, that comes to around $500,000 worth of
> typing. Yikes! Maybe we should hold a typathon where volunteers do it for
> free and get pledged per page so that we can give something to charity while
> we're at it.

Maybe even a comprimise.  Offer to send bit-maps to "vendors" and let 
them send back the text.  How they do it will be their business.  Pay 
them by the page.  I'm sure that many work-at-home mothers would kill for 
an opportunity like this.

Rex Ballard


From rballard@cnj.digex.net Mon May  8 02:56:57 1995