They had a disk crash (never bothered to let anyone know) and lost large portions of the data base. When they had a name, but no address, the fools used Michael Siladi's home address and phone number! And evidently didn't let their own staff people know that this was a null address, and to question it when it came up!
Idiots. This is why you have backups. Frequent ones. and you never *ever* stick anything that even *looks* like valid data into fileds for which you've lost the data.
When I was dealing awith a membership database, I had cases where (for good reasons) people's addreses weren't in there. I left the fileds blank when I could, and stuck in obviously bogus stuff where I couldn't.
But it sounds like you had fun in spite of the idiots.
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Date: 28 May 2003 01:23 (UTC)Idiots. This is why you have backups. Frequent ones. and you never *ever* stick anything that even *looks* like valid data into fileds for which you've lost the data.
When I was dealing awith a membership database, I had cases where (for good reasons) people's addreses weren't in there. I left the fileds blank when I could, and stuck in obviously bogus stuff where I couldn't.
But it sounds like you had fun in spite of the idiots.