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Subject:Re: Keep it on technical communications From:Peter Sturgeon <prsturgeon -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"Johnson, Tom" <TJohnson -at- starcutter -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Wed, 1 Feb 2006 13:52:21 -0500 (EST)
Couple of quick points. I get careless, so all this applies to me, too.
1. The reason people CAN get side-tracked by errors in other people's
posts is that the posters are putting those errors in.
2. That technical writers post errors and display uncertainty about
things like "what's active voice" doesn't bode well for us if innocent
bystanders peruse these archives looking for knowledgeable people.
3. That we pick on the errors of fellow posters doesn't bode well,
either.
> Hey Gang,
>
> Lisa is not able to monitor the list as closely as she would like for
> a while so I'm jumping in, but I'm stopping short of invoking the
> 'ADMIN' in the subject line. We're straying here.
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