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Actually, my take on technical writing is that we're all extroverted
introverts, a stance that should offend both extremes. <grin> You
can't call writing an extroverted activity, since you do it alone
(and wash your hands when you're done); but neither can you write in
a vacuum, and you won't succeed if you're not at least sufficiently
extroverted to talk to your SMEs and get the facts.
Enough psychobabble... here's a more techwhirly-type question. The
reason I've been posting to techwr-l via intermediaries (thanks,
Wayne!) is that we've recently upgraded [sic] to a combination of
Pegasus e-mail and the Mercury gateway, leaving me in the position of
being able to read techwr-l digests (but not respond) or respond (but
not read the digests... spot the problem!). If you're using this
combination of software and have a suggestion on how to fix this
problem, I'd be deeply grateful. And the techwr-l tie-in? I've been
volunteered to write the in-house user guide for the software, and
this is kinda important to add in for future e-mail administrators.
--Geoff Hart @8^{)}
geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
