For Doug: The Enormous Spreadsheet that Runs the World's Mail

Posted by: tfabris

For Doug: The Enormous Spreadsheet that Runs the World's Mail - 10/10/2017 20:16

Totally thought of you when I saw this:

Posted by: tanstaafl.

Re: For Doug: The Enormous Spreadsheet that Runs the World's Mail - 10/10/2017 22:22

Now if only the video showed a way that I could access and poke around in that spreadsheet...

tanstaafl.

Posted by: K447

Re: For Doug: The Enormous Spreadsheet that Runs the World's Mail - 10/10/2017 22:47

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!