Intel Corporation
2200 Mission College Blvd
Santa Clara, CA 95052 8119
408 765 8080
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 08:11:26 -0700
03 00050 60 02093001
Mr. Rod Welch
rodwelch@pacbell.net
The Welch Company
440 Davis Court #1602
San Francisco, CA 94111 2496
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Subject:
Fear Accountability Prevents Accuracy
Technology to Improve Capturing Record Reduced Value of Records
Dear Rod,
[Responding to
your letter
on September 27, 2002 discussing cultural drift away
from accuracy illustrated by the movie "The Malese Falcon" that has a scene
showing how "getting it all down" accurately
was a cultural norm when the
movie was produced sometime in the 1930s - 1950s...]
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In the old days, no one had computers, and minutes, etc were taken in
shorthand. Letters were dictated to secretaries, and then typed, corrected,
etc. Times have changed all that. An intermediate step was to have a
dictation machine, and then a tape recorder. Many companies had file
cabinets full of this junk. It was seldom used except by trial attorneys
taking huge amounts of money from companies.
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The deep pocket laws have made such record keeping a thing of the past. The
new mantra is no evidence or anything that could be used against us.