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Re: How to interpret Interchange Errors?
>If you're missing a segment, and the file is from a Trading Partner, I
>wouldn't recommend editing a file for auditing purposes. Identify the
>error ask the TP to correct on their end, to fix the problem so it doesn't
>keep occurring, and resend the transaction. * * *
The above is excellent advice, in cases where the business users you
support are depending on the message artifacts to help with later
enforceability. Many do. Then again, many people choose to do EDI
business informally, without having signed paper TPAs or the electronic
equivalent of digitally signed messages. It makes your lawyer's hair fall
out, sure, but so does most commerce. People have been doing informal
deals based on unenforceable chicken scratches since Cro-Magnon
days. (Recent archeological evidence suggests that the first 850 was sent
on a clay tablet in cuneiform, from Babylonia. Probably by Sam Walton's
father. )
The key here is to make sure you know from your business users whether they
need your system to operate in informal mode or enforceable-as-heck mode.
~ James Bryce Clark
~ VP and General Counsel, McLure-Moynihan Inc.
~ Chair, ABA Business Law Subcommittee on Electronic Commerce
~ 1 818 597 9475
~ This message is neither legal advice nor a binding signature. Ask me why.
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