Quality management at its finest.
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Actual email from my time at Xerox.
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 95 14:38:34 CDT
From: (engineer)
To: (support mail alias)
Subject: Patch 5774
Cc: (manager), (engineer)
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Everyone, Request 5774 was: .
Submitted with testcase as priority 1 on Thursday 8/24. .
Reproduced in Engineering on Friday 8/25. .
Fixed with code changes on Monday 8/28. .
Made into a patch on Tuesday 8/29. .
Tested and approved for distribution on Wednesday 8/30.
Mighty impressive!Date: Wed, 30 Aug 95 15:17:09 CDT
From: (engineer)
To: (support staffer)
Subject:
Re: Patch 5774
Jay, The dates were chosen to impress the reader. Accuracy was not considered a requirement. Actually, no one in Engineering even looked at it on Thursday or Friday as I was in Duluth. All priority 1 requests are fixed within 5 working days (as long as we already know the corrective code).HUH!
I have saved these messages for a decade. I still don't know what to make of them.
(ED: added linebreaks)
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Argh! 0-minute edit limit.
Imagine <br> tags at suitable points. The original messages weren't badly formatted, just incoherent.
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@seebs said:
I have saved these messages for a decade. I still don't know what to make of them.
Post them![:D]
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Um, check the date -- I think he just did...
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Sure he did.
But how many more e-mails do you think he have?
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@Savior said:
Sure he did.
But how many more e-mails do you think he have?Nothing else like that. Those were... Unique.
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Well, well, too bad you don't have any other masterpiece like these.
But they could have impressed more if they "fixed" the bug on a saturday, instead of waiting till monday.