Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site stolaf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!stolaf!knutsonk From: knutsonk@stolaf.UUCP (Kari E. Knutson) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: errors Message-ID: <4906@stolaf.UUCP> Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 11:08:53 EDT Article-I.D.: stolaf.4906 Posted: Tue Sep 10 11:08:53 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 11-Sep-85 07:36:57 EDT Distribution: net Organization: St. Olaf College, Northfield MN Lines: 8 *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** A Defense Dept. study showed that there is one error in every 300 hand-made entries to a record, one in every 10,000 made by optical character recognition systems, but only one in 3 Million when done by bar-code scannings. Moral: Scan the bars.