On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:28:16 -0800 (PST)
TimB wrote:
wouldn't be an issue. But to save themselves a bit of cash they decided t=
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stiff the public instead.

B2003

It's all a conspiracy to stiff you, isn't it?

No , its standard practice. Do everything as cheaply as possible. I was
involved, albeit on some peripheral back-end systems, in the original paper
travelcard system rolled out to newsagents back in the mid 90s (large blue
boxes if anyone remembers them). And believe me, if a cost could be cut and
got away with it would be. I see no reason to believe that the decisions
behind oyster were any different. So if they could cut the number of
validators in half and put some software lash up in its place then thats
exactly what they'd do. And have done.

B2003