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RE: YOU are responsible, even when YOU are not to blame
Subject:RE: YOU are responsible, even when YOU are not to blame From:John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 9 Apr 2003 13:52:08 -0400
Maybe he tried to guess at what was behind the person's thought process when
the
following was said:
>"...inaccuracies are not necessarily the fault of the writer..
There are some people, (me sometimes, other moretimes), who takes a general
statement and interprets it as an absolute.
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From: Jan Henning [mailto:henning -at- r-l -dot- de]
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 1:46 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Cc: John Posada
Subject: Re: YOU are responsible, even when YOU are not to blame
> Jan...not to belabor the point, but what does any of this matter?
>
> To know error is to fix error.
If that was the whole point, why did this discussion even get started?
The initial statement on reponsibility was prompted by this paragraph:
> Because I am a technical writer, I understand that inaccuracies are
> not necessarily the fault of the writer, or even the editor. This book
> was produced before the final version of the software came out. It had
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