RE: Clarify Agency Notices? ... no, really

[KMcLauchlan -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com]

I guess I didn't ask clearly.

I don't want to edit it. I was wondering if 
anybody has ever seen fit to put a big honkin' 
asterisk beside it, and then explain it in 
a footnote (much as I had to explain it to our 
new Product Mangler).

Before she came along, I would have thought it 
a non-issue, but as I say, she's not stupid; 
she simply hadn't encountered this stuff before. 
Because of that, she asked some questions (about 
stuff that I must have had to learn at some point 
in the dim and distant past).  So, maybe some of 
our customers (or the people who review sample 
manuals to decide whether our product is something 
they want to purchase) are in the same boat.

That's all. 

Maybe my footnote could say "In case you wondered..."

/kevin

>-----Original Message-----
>From: SHIELDS,SUSAN (HP-FtCollins,ex1) [mailto:susan_shields2 -at- hp -dot- com]

>
>Kevin McLauchlan asked:
>>So, now I'm wondering if any of the rest of you ever 
>>take it upon yourselves to explain/annotate such 
>>boilerplate text in your user docs.
>
>Depends on who generated the boilerplate. 
>
> * If it came from the government, I don't change it. 

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