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Re: Getting up to speed on UML (Was: Re: Documentation Correctness...)
Subject:Re: Getting up to speed on UML (Was: Re: Documentation Correctness...) From:Seb <techwritersblock -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Lauren <lt34 -at- csus -dot- edu> Date:Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:56:04 -0400
Hi all,
I thought I'd pop in with a helpful suggestion that should help calm
everyone down. Modern email clients have a useful feature that allows you
filter email based on a number of criteria. Oddly enough, they're called
filters. If you wanted to automatically file all incoming email from a
certain person into the trash, you can do that.
On 10/24/07, Lauren <lt34 -at- csus -dot- edu> wrote:
>
> > From: Richard Lewis
>
> Anthony Markatos, why are you here?
>
> > As a Tech Writer I hardly don't write nothing. I primarily
> > create data flow diagrams.
>
> Then you are not a technical writer. Technical writers write. ALL
> diagrams
> and other support documents are tools that may or may not be used. If
> there
> was a person working for me or with me who only produced diagrams, then
> that
> person would only be a support person for the writers.
>
> Why are you on a technical writing forum if you NOT a writer? Twisting
> the
> words of people who point out your weaknesses into irrelevant nonsense and
> then becoming combative out of defensiveness with your poorly formed
> arguments is simply disruptive. Can't you find other people to
> annoy? Your
> writing is atrocious, so I doubt that your employer would consider you a
> "writer" of anything, let alone a technical writer.
>
> You have never supported anything you say. You claim that you do not know
> what people are saying to you and you require extensive explanations
> because
> you either do not or you pretend you do not understand the basic precepts
> of
> communication and support for arguments, so you are not a communicator.
>
> You are a paradox. Why are you here? You do not write, you are not a
> professional communicator, you are not a technical writer, you do not
> understand the environment of technical writing, and you have a bad
> attitude. Do you know that this is a technical writing forum for
> technical
> communicators that want to peacefully share ideas? You do not belong here
> when you criticize the career and attack people.
>
> Lauren
>
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