RE: A little respect for "unvalidated"

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: McLauchlan, Kevin
> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 9:08 AM
> To: Robert Lauriston; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: A little respect for "unvalidated"
> 
> ... Unlike doctors and pharmaceutical companies and medical 
> equipment companies, apparently, the rest of us understand a 
> difference between "unvalidated" (nobody has validated it) 
> and "invalidated" (somebody has actively tested and found 
> that it fails validation)...

"Unvalidated" has a specific, technical definition. "Invalidated"
doesn't.

Why do you say that these people don't understand the difference?
 
> This starts looking like "assure", "ensure", and "insure".
> 
> Fortunately, most of us here, and most of our customers are 
> not contaminated by that peculiarity that you suggest exists 
> within the medical industry...

"Contaminated." LOL.

Anyway, I'll bet the Sarbanes-Oxley experts on this list have their own
glossary of technical terms. Just because a term looks peculiar to
someone who knows absolutely nothing about Sarbanes-Oxley, that doesn't
mean that it isn't useful or accurate.






































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