Re: An error as big as the side of a barn (sort of)

[Joe Fockler <jfockler -at- IPHASE -dot- COM>]

+ lamorela -at- cs -dot- hh -dot- ab -dot- com writes:

+ Here's a giggle for all you techwhirlers. I'm sure you've run into similar
+  things. I've spent the morning comparing an engineer's report with the copy
+ I'm
+  correcting in my manual. While reading the engineer's document, I came
+ across
+  this discussion of alarms (short excerpt here):
+ ...the bits in this data file...are assigned for alarms only and are not to
+ be
+  modified in any way. Failure to comply may result in alarming problems.

+ ==============
+ [Now that I've finished laughing...]  I was hoping we'd get around to
+ sharing these!  Heli & I got a chuckle out of this one a few days ago at the
+ end of a trying week:

+ "Additional information is stored in the XXX table, so that for each volume
+ there is the information about the volume."

+ Send more!  We can vote on the winning Doozy! Or compile them into a sample
+ manual that says *absolutely nothing* in a very complicated way! :)


+ Sally Marquigny                    Network Imaging Systems
+ sallym -at- msmailhq -dot- netimage -dot- com       Herndon, VA

+ "Honey attracts more flies than vinegar" -- Mom

"Appendix C contains additional information. For more information see
 Appendix C."

I believe this was in a manual written by the Department of Redundancy
Department! --