RE: RE: EMAIL Syntax Validation

rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   6. RE: EMAIL Syntax Validation (Bob Voltz)
>
>Ha, Ha...sooooo funny.
>   
>  Can you say CONTRACTOR working for a CLIENT and going by THEIR rules?
>   
>  I knew you could....


I've had clients who made odd demands similar to this. In three different 
circumstances, I told the client up front that costs would be higher doing it 
one way than it would be doing it another.

The really odd part was the one client who chose the more expensive 
alternative. In the other two cases, the alternatives were technical, e.g., 
choosing to create a set of functions in COBOL or RPG where one was clearly a 
better choice for the type of work to be done. But the third client... the 
higher rate was simply for always wearing a suit while on site rather than 
casual clothes.

It certainly gets interesting when you explain cost differences and let the 
client choose.

If you tell the client that e-mail address validation can be done easily in RPG 
IV but take five or ten times as long for a less reliable set of code in RPG 
III, and the client chooses to pay the premium, well, you've done your ethical 
duty. Tell them in writing so there's a record.

Tom Liotta