Time: Thu Feb 06 07:41:33 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA25123 for [address in tool bar]; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 06:45:36 -0700 (MST) Delivered-To: liberty-and-justice-outgoing@majordomo.pobox.com Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 07:24:18 -0800 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: L&J: IRS COMPUTERS "DO NOT WORK IN THE REAL WORLD" >From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] >Subject: IRS COMPUTERS "DO NOT WORK IN THE REAL WORLD" > >Pull the plugs, I say. > >And do it NOW! > >/s/ Paul Mitchell > > ><snip> > >>Excerpts from >>>************************************************************ >>>Edupage, 2 February 1997. Edupage, a summary of news about information >>>technology, is provided three times a week as a service by Educom, a >>>Washington, D.C.-based consortium of leading colleges and universities >>>seeking to transform education through the use of information technology. >>>************************************************************ >> >><snip> >> >>>IRS COMPUTERS "DO NOT WORK IN THE REAL WORLD" >>>An Assistant Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service has conceded to a >>>panel created by Congress that a $4-billion computer systems modernization >>>project has failed, that IRS computers "do not work in the real world," and >>>that the agency is incapable of bringing its computer capabilities up to the >>>right level because it lacks the "intellectual capital" for the job. He >>>proposed contracting out the processing of paper returns filed by >>>individuals and abandoning a "big bang" approach to systems modernization in >>>favor an incremental, piecemeal one. Though characterizing the systems as >>>"dysfunctional," the administrator told that panel that the IRS "is wholly >>>dependent on them." (New York Times 31 Jan 97) > ==================================================================== [Text is usually formatted in Courier 11 non-proportional spacing @] [65-characters per line; .DOCs by MS-WORD for MS-DOS, Version 5.0B.] Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S., email address: pmitch@primenet.com Web site for the Supreme Law Firm is URL: http://www.supremelaw.com Ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776, Tucson, Arizona state [We win] We can decode all your byte streams, spaghetti code notwithstanding. Coming soon: "Manifesto for a Republic" by John E. Trumane ie JetMan ==================================================================== =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Unsub info - send e-mail to majordomo@majordomo.pobox.com, with "unsubscribe liberty-and-justice" in the body (not the subject) Liberty-and-Justice list-owner is Mike Goldman <whig@pobox.com>
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