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A lot of processes have a human in the loop. Sometimes unavoidably. One
big effect is as a transaction limiting factor. You just can't spread a
virus as fast if a person has to click to make it happen, even if you can
get them to do it consistently (which is hard even when it is in their
best interest).
------------>Nathan
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:15:15 -0500, David Lyon
<david.lyon@computergrid.net> wrote:
> On Monday 14 February 2005 03:27 pm, Nathan Young wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> In cases where I've found validation useful, the subset of documents I'm
>> interested in is a much smaller and more specific set of documents than
>> the set that I would like to exclude. This makes "accept if" conditions
>> easier to define than "reject if" conditions.
>
> Yes.
>
>> I think in general this is the case and has led to the current state
>> of document validation, but I agree that it need not always be so.
>
> The opposite opinion is where you have structured messaging that
> is done in a small business environment where practically all the
> validation is done at a human level.
>
> Humans nut through the a rendering of the documents, work out if the
> documents make sense and reject ones that don't. Click a button to
> reject it or get further information and make it go away for a while.
>
> One question I have is whether it is such a good idea to let the
> humans in.... oh well it's all good fun...
>
> David
>
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Nathan Young
A: ncy1717
E: natyoung@cisco.com
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