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<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">[mail troubles;
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Dear all,<br>
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This morning I said that cosmetic items such as "model CCSM4" as
opposed to "CCSM4" being listed on the model search menu should
not be allowed to hold up "going live". I also said I didn't
think many users would miss (in the near term) being able to limit
their searches to a single "institution". I hope I didn't imply
that we shouldn't be concerned about this bugs, especially (on
further contemplation) since they might be symptoms of real
problems. Given that it was said these would be difficult to fix,
I presume that the developers thought these problems are not
trivial, and therefore, I would hope that considerable effort be
devoted to understanding them. One wonders why the "institution"
search doesn't work but the others do? Why do other menus not
have the problem of inserting an unwanted descriptor (like
"model")? One would think that the coding for these things would
be somewhat similar, so if in one case there is a problem, perhaps
there are similar problems (as yet unnoticed) in other parts of
the system.<br>
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So, please don't misinterpret my suggestion that we could live
without fixing these things as meaning we shouldn't understand
these errors before going live.<br>
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best regards,<br>
Karl <br>
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