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Subject:RE: More genteel than 'Sanity Checked' From:"Dori Green" <dgreen -at- associatedbrands -dot- com> To:"elizabeth j allen" <eja -at- samurai -dot- com> Date:Wed, 30 May 2007 15:06:39 -0400
Elizabeth Allen wrote:
I think what you're trying to say is along the lines of "Don't put
anything into a customer document that you don't want the customer to see,
even if you think you'll have time to take it out before delivering the
document."
Not putting certain data into writing would grind industry to a halt.
Hence, the concept of "insider information."
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Yes, on that I agree. But such information is usually controlled and protected from inadvertent distribution. When I say "don't put it into writing" I'm talking specifically about those casual bits and pieces like the internally-defined "sanity check" of the original post.
Dori Green
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