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Subject:Re: I got thrown for a loop. From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:05:04 -0400
>>My manager, who is Marketing Director (yeah, I know....), and who has
shared my passion for creating usable products, wrote this response: "And
what is the benefit of the user knowing who they are?"
I usually find it just annoying, not helpful, possibly because the greeting is
usally mispunctuated (missing a comma after "Hello." Makes me wonder about
the professionalism of the rest of the site, as in, "Are they as good with
their business as they are in writing a two-word sentence?" (And I know who I
am most days.) I think it's basically a useless label, but if you are
referring to its utility in letting a person know they've signed in, I really
think there should be other, plainer, and less hokey methods of doing that,
such as taking you to the place you want to be (and I don't mean Tahiti).
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