----- Original Message -----
From: Jim = ODonnell
To: BT Pacific
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 10:49 PM
Subject: Dead horse

The tribal wisdom of the Dakota = Indians, passed on from generation to
generation, says that when you discover that you = are riding a dead horse,
the best strategy is to dismount.

In = modern education and government  however, a whole range
of far more = advanced strategies are often employed, such as:-

1. Buying a stronger = whip.
2. Changing Riders.
3. Threatening the horse with termination.
4. = Appointing a committee to study the horse.
5. Visit other sites to see how = others ride dead horses.
6. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
7. Re-classifying the dead horse as "living, = impaired".
8. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
9. Harnessing = several dead horses together to increase the speed.
10. Providing additional = funding and/or training to enhance the dead horse's
performance.
11. Doing = a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the
dead = horse's performance.
12. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be = fed, it is less
costly, carries lower overhead, and therefore contributes substantially more
to the bottom line of the economy than do some = other horses.
13. Re-writing the expected performance requirements for all horses.
14. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.

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