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RE: Post-holiday reality: They don't need our stinkin' manuals??
Subject:RE: Post-holiday reality: They don't need our stinkin' manuals?? From:David Downing <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 29 Dec 2000 15:05:01 -0500
<<To be fair to your niece, I was reviewing a user manual for a cell phone -
and discovered that it didn't tell you how to turn the phone on until page
18. It wasn't intuitive. I wrote a note to the writer.>>
Actually, now that you mention it, *I* didn't read the manual to verify that
the information was or wasn't there. Perhaps it behooved me to do so.
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