Am 03.03.2010 um 10:38 schrieb Bowerbird@aol.com:
do not listen to the people who treat d.p. as if it is a factory, where "parts" are assembled into "products". the improper metaphor will only distract from truth.
Oh, puppi-cock! You do not even know the difference between an analogy and a methaphor! DPs approach is that of an assembly line. Scans of pages are processed, put together, processed further, go through further processes and eventually a final product comes out.
the queues are not the problem, they are an _effect_ of the problem. treating symptoms is bad strategy. They are part of the system and assembly line!
the queues cause problems of their own, but _those_ problems are not the cause either; do not forget that. Especially, if input and output are not balanced.
the problem is you cannot expect dozens of people to match the output created by thousands of people. remember what the problem is. treat the problem. So you suggest slowing down the work of the volunteers, stopping them? Come on you are smarter than that. The queues definately are not the problem. There are just to few handling the output, or input depending from which side you look at them. As you claim there are thousands creating output. That output becomes input. At some stage SOMEONE has to process that output to finalize it. So QED. There need to be more volunteers working in the latter stages of the production.
Nice of you to prove my point!! Cheers Keith.