Re: This page left blank

Subject: Re: This page left blank
From: "Wayne J. Douglass" <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 11:09:49 -0700

At 10:49 AM 6/12/97 -0700, Elna Tymes wrote:
>
>Good guess, Geoff, but you didn't go back quite far enough. This one
>dates from the military hardware-writer days, when certain MIL-SPECs
>dictated every little thing on how to write manuals. Some of the
>MIL-SPECs specifically ordered that "This page intentionally left blank"
>be printed on an otherwise blank page.
>
Good history lesson from Elna. Since it is a DOD spec, putting the phrase on
a blank page doesn't *have* to make sense, but I was told that the logic
behind the direction was to make it explicit that there wasn't *supposed* to
be any information on the page - in case readers worried that they had
somehow got an incomplete manual.

--Wayne Douglass

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