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From: "Roy Stockdill" <>
Subject: Re: 1901 Census - well, that was a non-event!
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 08:48:09 +0000
In-Reply-To: <7d173usmhap2ce9vicaimjruc5nui8e195@4ax.com>


Liz Read <> wrote.....

>> The Government has a dreadful record with computer systems, largely because
they have a shortage of people technical enough to know what to include in
the contract and service-level agreements.<<

WITHOUT having your level of knowledge, isn't this because they simply don't
pay the salaries in government and public service that private industry and
commerce does to get the best people?

I am convinced this is why local councils also are so unbelievably bumbling and
inefficient. It's called the "peanuts and monkeys" syndrome.

Roy Stockdill
Editor, the Journal of One-Name Studies
Editor, "My Ancestors Were..." series (Society of Genealogists)
Web page of the Guild of One-Name Studies:- www.one-name.org
Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History:- www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html

Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does he will tell you, if he does not why humiliate him? - Canon Sydney Smith

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