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Subject:Re: The Truth About Silicon Valley From:Wayne Douglass <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 14 Apr 1999 10:43:38 -0700
At 10:41 AM 4/14/99 -0400, Maury King wrote:
<This report so chilled my blood that I immediately shelved any idea of
moving to the Bay area until I could check out the report further. Was the
case worker being overly alarmist, or is the report accurate? Silicon
Valley still provides one of the strongest markets for technical writing,
which is why I cannot afford to overlook such tales of terror. If there is
truth in this report, please inform me off the list.>
It's all true! Stay away! The fewer tech writers in this area the better -
for me.
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