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Subject:Re: editing--Editing Online web page From:"Wilcox, John (WWC, Contractor)" <wilcoxj -at- WDNI -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 29 May 1998 09:18:30 -0700
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> From: Shannon White[SMTP:shannonwhite -at- yahoo -dot- com]
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> The page may have been changed, but errors are still there. "Editng,"
> for one, is incorrect, and "definative" is still in the middle of the
> page. The spacing errors are still evident in the titles of the
> books, and why is that random period there on the last entry title?
>
> It is blatant disregard of such errors that reduce technical
> writers/editors to the stereotype of typists. I, for one, am
> sickened.
>
I've had an e-mail conversation with the owner, John Willis, over the
last 24 hours. Editing Online is a fictitious company. He made it up
as a way of demonstrating his web business model. It's just unfortunate
that he chose editing as the business for the demo, seeing that he is
obviously not an editor.
He's really ticked at all the negative e-mail he's been getting over it.
Let's leave him alone now, folks.
Regards,
John Wilcox, Documentation Specialist
Timberlands Information Services
Federal Way, Washington USA
mailto: wilcoxj -at- wdni -dot- com
(I don't speak for Weyerhaeuser, and they return the favor.)
