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#369532 - 10/10/2017 20:16 For Doug: The Enormous Spreadsheet that Runs the World's Mail
tfabris
carpal tunnel

Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31563
Loc: Seattle, WA
Totally thought of you when I saw this:

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#369533 - 10/10/2017 22:22 Re: For Doug: The Enormous Spreadsheet that Runs the World's Mail [Re: tfabris]
tanstaafl.
carpal tunnel

Registered: 08/07/1999
Posts: 5539
Loc: Ajijic, Mexico
Now if only the video showed a way that I could access and poke around in that spreadsheet...

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#369534 - 10/10/2017 22:47 Re: For Doug: The Enormous Spreadsheet that Runs the World's Mail [Re: tfabris]
K447
old hand

Registered: 29/05/2002
Posts: 797
Loc: near Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Somehow I am thinking that if it indeed was implemented as a spreadsheet, this would be a rather fragile and error prone creature.

I could imagine thousands of updates per year, if not per week. Possibly by many different people. Scheduled rate changes, error detection and correction.

Oy!

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