March 19, 2001
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At EyeWire, we maintain our massive customer-targeted email newsletter mailing lists the old-fashioned way. We use a text editor. Why? So we can break up multi-megabyte database export files into manageable chunks. Why? Because we use Excel to sort the data by locale and it chokes when you try to import more than 65,535 records at a time. Why? Because we have no other way of easily and regularly organizing the raw data so it ends up in usable form. Why? Because it’s all so stupid.
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