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"Can anyone think of a reason why we would have to keep this message? We
are a major supplier in the automotive industry, but have no DOD sales."
In my experience, this was common practice in duplex-printed, sectioned
documents typically distributed in three-ring binders. It was intended to
leave room for expansion of the information with minimal risk to page
numbering, etc.--which, if changed, could become costly to distribute in
hardcopy--while assuring readers that no information was missing and the
document was not misprinted.
The idea behind this design was to be able to update as few pages as
possible and distribute only the changed pages, thus saving printing costs.
But it complicated users' lives by requiring them to sit down with the
binder and a pile of updated pages, go through the manual and replace the
old with the new... which, of course, no one really had time to do anyway,
so the whole binder-update notion was moot. Few people ever noticed that a
once-blank page contained new information.
By the way, readers tend to ignore headers and footers, so even a page with
those features printed on it will be regarded as "blank". Blankness is more
of a perception than a literality.
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