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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 11:50:40 +0100 (BST)
From: Pete Mellor <pm@csr.city.ac.uk>
Subject: Kew Public Records Office data input problem

>From Private Eye 6-19th April 2001, p6: 

  Managers at the Public Records Office in Kew have devised a clever
  money-saving idea: they are using prisoners in British jails to input on
  to computer the information from the 1901 census.  The prisoners' work has
  been checked, however, and they have been found to be rewriting history.
  All references to prison wardens in 1901 have been changed to "bastards".
  Officials are now using cheap labour in India to correct the errors.

Peter Mellor, Centre for Software Reliability, City University, 
London EC1V 0HB  +44 (0)20 7477 8422  Pete Mellor <p.mellor@csr.city.ac.uk> 

  [And of course no one in India still remembers the British.  PGN]

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