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Skriven 2004-11-25 12:55:02 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
   Kommentar till text 2087 av mark lewis (1:3634/12)
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 >  MvdV> The word ONLINE suggests that it is a peek into your actual
 >  MvdV> data base. Nowhere does it even suggest that this is not the
 >  MvdV> case.

 >  MvdV> You present us with misleading information.

 > perhaps your definition of "online" is misleading? for
 > instance, "online" does not indicate live, realtime
 > access... it only indicates that something is available
 > when connected to a/the network...

See what I mean? You can't win from the echolist mafia. They will never admit
that their might be a problem on their side. When needed they change the rules
and definitions at will.

The way it is presented is misleading. Never mind what your dictionary says. It
is misleading because everyone else that presents information this way does
indeed provide the actual up to date information. If I surf to the online
telephone book, I get real time access to the telco's data base. I get the
actual numbers, not those from last month. If I go to the site of my bank to
look at my account, I get what is in my account NOW, not what was in it three
weeks ago. If I surf to the site of a postal order company I get today's
prices, not those at the beginning of the month.

It is what people expect when data is presented that way. And therefore not
living up to that expectation without explicitly saying so is misleading.

I am sure that if a postal order company here would charge the customer more
than the listed price on their site - claiming that the customer should have
known that the information was only updated once a month and that he should
have used some other means to get the actual up to date price - would be in
deep shit with the overseer.

And now of course you are going to tell me that the echolist is produced in the
US and not in The Netherlands... <sigh>


Michiel

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