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Subject:RE: Anyone know anything about The Help Factory? From:jgarison -at- ide -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 11 Dec 2002 16:28:33 -0500
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Organization:
Kenneth J Festa
Ken Festa
3117 Broadway #54
New York, NY 10027
US
Phone: 212-864-5898
Email: nyc314 -at- yahoo -dot- com
Created on..............: Thu, Oct 10, 2002
Expires on..............: Fri, Oct 10, 2003
Record last updated on..: Fri, Oct 11, 2002
Administrative Contact:
Kenneth J Festa
Ken Festa
3117 Broadway #54
New York, NY 10027
US
Phone: 212-864-5898
Email: nyc314 -at- yahoo -dot- com
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Register.Com
Domain Registrar
575 8th Avenue - 11th Floor
New York, NY 10018
US
Phone: 902-749-2701
Fax..: 902-749-5429
Email: domain-registrar -at- register -dot- com
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Sharon Burton-Hardin [mailto:sharon -at- anthrobytes -dot- com]
>>Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 4:03 PM
>>To: TECHWR-L
>>Subject: RE: Anyone know anything about The Help Factory?
>>
>>
>>
>>They say they do no editing, no TOC creation (if you got one,
>>then they will
>>have one) but do create a basic index, which looks, for their
>>example, like
>>just a list of topics. They say that the HTML in Word is
>>messy and does not
>>get you the TOC, Search and index. All of which is true.
>>
>>What makes me wonder is there is literally no contact or
>>location info,
>>except for a brief statement about the NY Tri state area. No phone, no
>>physical mail address, nothing. www.thehelpfactory.com
>>
>>I know the economy is tough, but it seems tough to figure the
>>return on the
>>investment for WWP for Word at $30 a pop...
>>
>>sharon
>>
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