[PRCo] Re: PRC Roster

[Jim Holland]

> On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Fred W. Schneider III wrote:

>> I have been typing a generalized roster for you fellows ... numbers,
>> builder, year built, car type, general information on apparatus and
>> changes thereto, generalized scrap dates (not specific by car but often
>> first, last, and majority).

	This is already in Tom's booklet - most of us on this list have Tom's
book and thus have this information!

>> For that reason many cartographers put insignificant mistakes in their
>> maps in order to prove in court that someone ripped them off.)

	I can see a commercial venture doing this (I know SF Muni does it with
their maps) but not a very informal railfan listing such as this -
doesn't make sense to put in errors when enough already exist!

> Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> -hates inaccuracy as over time if enough people believe the wrong
> something it can become gospel whether your work was "copied" or not
> -and now back to work, since my deliberate inaccuracies, er, bugs, are
> causing problems

	I have similar feelings, Derrick, but as humans, we are perpetually
trapped with inaccuracies - part of our  *in*--human nature.  But I
don't like those made on purpose!!  Definitely with you there!!<G>

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James B. Holland

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