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Subject:RE: What would you like to read? From:Allan Ackerson <Allan -at- profitsystems -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:03:14 -0600
Isn't it nice to know that not everyone is taking you for granat?
Cheers!
Al
-----Original Message-----
From: Bonnie Granat [mailto:bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info]
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 11:56 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: What would you like to read?
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Posada" <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>
To: "'Bonnie Granat'" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info>; "TECHWR-L"
<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: September 26, 2003 01:45 PM
Subject: RE: What would you like to read?
> Bonnie...the question was posted with very little explanation, nothing
about
> why, nothing about what it would be used for. When you throw out a vague
> question, it's up to the list's imagination on how to respond...and you
know
> what kind of imagination we have. Don't look at us if 100% of the
responses
> went one way and you wanted another...we're ALL wrong?
>
> Yes, we're technical writers...but we're not mind readers. We're subject
to
> the same misunderstandings that any of your document readers are subject
to.
> Give us guidance and we'll give you intelligent answers. Give us none and
we
> won't use any intelligence.
>
Thanks for the clarification, John. I do appreciate all of the responses. I
really do.
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