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From: Tim.Lawrence@f432.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Tim Lawrence)
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Subject: Re: nls data base
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Date: 4 May 91 04:15:55 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

MD>Tim, why can't the NLS people lock out portions of the database they
MD>don't want us to see?  I am sure there is confidential
MD>information in there--but, they could, it would seem, block out
MD>some information.  Of course, we don't know how they have it set up.

Margo I think they could, but the question of the day is will they?

I dthink the problem is really not one of locking out confidential information
from the database, I'm willing to bet there's an easy way of doing that.
The problem in my opinion is that the people who decide all of this
believe that the majority of blind people out there don't have
computers, and wouldn't need access to the database anyway.
Well some time they should drop in on Blinktalk, and take a look
around, maybe they'd see things different.

REgards Tim.

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