eForms Error Correction Process

[sillycon]

From a software developer perspective, I can pretty much promise you that the issue isn't REALLY "coding errors"; it's much more likely that someone was cut corners and/or didn't take the time to understand what the requirements of the system are. The removal of the special characters was a deliberate choice made by someone, and was most likely a "quick fix" to an error that was found while storing those characters in the database. Sadly, this sort of thing is all too common as doing it the "right way" (by escaping the character(s)) is much more involved and time consuming.

As a separate thought, given the level of access to data required to build such an application, it should be a trivial matter to get simple counts of transferable items in the NFRTR.

Then again, that data in the wild could really shake up the NFA market. Imagine what would happen if people found out that there were, in fact, only 300 "X"'s when people thought there were tens of thousands, and in fact 1,000 Y's when only 5 were thought to exist. Oh my!