Targeted junkmail "from" your GP?
Adrian Midgley
ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:39:57 +0100
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Roland Perry wrote:
> In article <4868EF0E.5080403@defoam.net>, Adrian Midgley
> <amidgley2@defoam.net> writes
>>> I very much doubt my medical records include my occupation (which is in
>>> any event so obscure that I have difficulty categorising it even when
>>> someone *is* gathering the information).
>>
>> There is a field for it with a qualifier for detail.
>
> Maybe we need things like "Teacher" (field) "in a 1960's
> comprehensive"[1] (qualifier) so everyone can excited about
> exposure to asbestos?
>
> [1] Versus "in a Victorian primary school".
The obvious qualifier would be the GUID for the school, allowing someone
who needed to look up the by then current state of information about
that school, rather than demanding the person of the moment working out
what sort of school it had been.
Abstraction is good in coding.
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