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Subject:Re: Marvel at my stupidity From:Bonnie Granat <bgranat -at- LYNX -dot- DAC -dot- NEU -dot- EDU> Date:Tue, 24 Aug 1999 19:52:44 -0400
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Date: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: Marvel at my stupidity
><snip>
>Why are some people obsessed with perfection?
>
>I worked for this guy once a few years back who would turn red and scream
at me
>if there were more than one or two errors in my draft documents. I tried
to
>tell him that it was impossible to write a long, complex technical document
>without needing some editing. Sheesh, I'm not perfect.
><snip>
>
>
>
>Weren't you the one who saved and posted the errors others had made in
their
>posts to Techwr-l?
>
>
>Brian
>
And weren't you (Andrew) the one who. when you asked people to read it and
comment, said your book had been read by several people, when it was clear
that no competent person could have possibly laid eyes on it?
