[ale] OT: Cobb County business license office

[Justin Goldberg]

Too bad novell killed netmail open-source. Would have been nice to be
able to "roll your own carrier-grade gmail".

On 5/21/12, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> It would have been a nice coup to get them transferred to something Open
> Source instead.
>
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:55 PM, James Taylor <
> James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm very annoyed about the tremendous waste of my tax money migrating
>> their mail system to a much more expensive, less functional and less
>> reliable mail system than the one they have.
>> -jt
>>
>>
>>
>> James Taylor
>> 678-697-9420
>> james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
>>
>>
>>
>> >>> Geoffrey Myers <lists at serioustechnology.com> 5/21/2012   01:37 PM >>>
>> On 05/21/2012 01:16 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> > HA! I ESPECIALLY like the "expect the best".
>> >
>> > I recall the line from Apollo 13, "We're riding a bomb built by the
>> > lowest bidder".
>> >
>> > Most gov orgs rely on outside contracting for IT build and often
>> > ongoing
>> > support. There's a sweet spot between "stupid money" and "low cost
>> > crap"
>> > that is rarely found, it seems.
>>
>> Turns out they have passed some new law which requires additional
>> paperwork, thus the backup.
>>
>> Speaking of gov. orgs., they are migrating Cobb County Schools from
>> groupwise to exchange/outlook.  They gave all the teachers a document to
>> assist them with the process.  29 pages.  My wife got to page 3 where it
>> stated, it should finish within 1 hour.  She left her laptop on over
>> night, still wasn't finished.  Contacted IT support and they tried to go
>> through the same process remotely, same results.  Now their sending
>> someone out to the school.
>>
>> >
>> > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Geoffrey Myers
>> > <lists at serioustechnology.com <mailto:lists at serioustechnology.com>>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     Just received the following after sending an email to the Cobb
>> > County
>> >     business license office:
>> >
>> >      > Thank you for sending your affidavit and secure and verifiable
>> >     document
>> >      > via email. Due to tremendous volume, we are currently processing
>> >     emails
>> >      > received on May 3, 2012. We appreciate your patience.
>> >      >
>> >      > */Cobb County...Expect The Best/*
>> >      > //
>> >      > *www.cobbcounty.org <http://www.cobbcounty.org>*
>> >     <http://www.cobbcounty.org/>
>> >      >
>> >
>> >     Nice huh?
>> >
>> >
>> >     --
>> >     Until later, Geoffrey
>> >
>> >     "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
>> >     the government from wasting the labors of the people under
>> >     the pretense of taking care of them."
>> >     - Thomas Jefferson
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>> > James P. Kinney III
>> >
>> > As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
>> > consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as
>> > they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the
>> outcome.
>> > - ////2011 Noam Chomsky
>> >
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>> > ////
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>> Until later, Geoffrey
>>
>> "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
>> the government from wasting the labors of the people under
>> the pretense of taking care of them."
>> - Thomas Jefferson
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> --
> James P. Kinney III
>
> As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
> consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
> please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
> - *2011 Noam Chomsky
>
> http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
> *
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