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RE: +names--

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• Subject: RE: +names--
• From: "DuCharme, Bob (LNG-CHO)" <bob.ducharme@l...>
• Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:29:05 -0400

>Many good technical points 
>have been made but none came close to "it can't be done."  This leaves 
>the question of whether it *should* be done.  At this point the 
>head-count in the "contra" column is larger than in the "pro" column, 
>among those who speak up at least.

The contra arguments bring up a lot of good points, but the scale of
practical issues at LexisNexis that this would help to address outweighs the
scale of the problems that it would cause, so people here would definitely
be interested in having this encoding be an option. Put me in the "pro"
column. 

Bob

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