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Subject:Re: Exclamation marks in alert messages? From:John Posada <john -at- TDANDW -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 28 Jan 1999 14:14:01 -0500
Do I understand you to say that the software error and alert messages use !!
and you're replacing them with periods in your documentation?
Geoff Hart (by way of \"Eric J. Ray\" ) wrote:
> I'm editing the error messages and alert messages for some software
> that we'll be producing in English and French. The original text used
> copious amounts of exclamation points (!) in the English, which I've
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Bellcore, where Customer Satisfaction is our number one priority mailto:john -at- tdandw -dot- com mailto:jposada -at- notes -dot- cc -dot- bellcore -dot- com
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