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Subject: Re: Effeciency and effectiveness [Re: MTA's (was: VERY large mailing lists.)]
From: Rich Pieri <rich . pieri @ prescienttech . com>
Date: 14 Jul 1998 10:11:50 -0400
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In-reply-to: Jeffrey Goldberg's message of "Tue, 14 Jul 1998 10:27:43 +0100 (BST)"
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Jeffrey Goldberg writes:

> Something is effective if it does the job.  Something is efficient if
> it does what it does consuming fewer resources.

Exactly.  Five Neons moving 40 people around will consume less fuel than
the bus.  The bus is still more effective at moving large numbers of people
around, though.

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