Date:         Wed, 9 Jul 2003 14:29:29 -0700
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From:         "David L. Cassell" <cassell.david@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV>
Subject:      Re: Interview of CTO, Hyperion Solutions Corp[John LKopcke]
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Jack Hamilton <JackHamilton@FIRSTHEALTH.COM> sagely replied:
> If you look up "nebu_alex2000", you will see that he or she appears to
> be an employee of techieindex.com, or at least someone who feels
> entitled to use "we" when referring to them.
>
> The posting below is an advertisement posting as information.

Jack is right, as always.

> Interested readers might want to search the SAS-L archives for past
> discussions of techieindex.  I think it's fair to say that the
> impression you will get will not be nearly as favorable as
nebu_alex2000
> would like it to be.

techieindex.com has been a real problem, in fact.

> And even if it were legit, it would be off-topic for a SAS discussion
> list.

Except that.. they claim to maintain a SAS presence, which is anything
but the reliable, expansive resource they claim.  The 'reliable' parts
that I saw were all lifted from elsewhere, and who knows whether they
had appropriate permissions to do so...

So I see this discussion as on-topic for SAS programmers, just because
of the problems techieindex.com introduce into the subject-matter area.
Even if the original post was nothing but badly-disguised spam.

David
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David Cassell, CSC
Cassell.David@epa.gov
Senior computing specialist
mathematical statistician