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 Date: 10-07-90 (23:29)              Number: 3998 (Echo)
   To: KENNETH O'HESKIN              Refer#: 3786
 From: ZAFAR ESSAK                     Read: NO
 Subj: SOUNDEX                       Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 KO'H>   In a small operation where 3 or 4 people have a variety of 
 KO'H>   tasks to do on a computer (ie: arn't bored to death doing 
 KO'H>   mindless data entry for 8 hours every working day), and the 
 KO'H>   databases arn't likely to be larger than a few thousand records 
 KO'H>   anyway, there is not much need for this kind of tool. Errors 
 KO'H>   are less likely to occur, and are usually caught and corrected 
 KO'H>  by someone else. 

 Sorry, Kenneth I cannot agree with you.  Life's not like that.  It's 
 real easy to type a name incorrectly, maybe only once in a day if 
 you're real good.  So, is it possible for the machine to be forgiving 
 and lend a hand?  That is the issue I would like to address with a 
 routine like SOUNDEX. 
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