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- From: souchay@CAM.ORG (Francois Souchay)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: The Classiest Pickup Lines
- Message-ID: <C1ADIL.6qB@CAM.ORG>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 02:56:43 GMT
- References: <3320@devnull.mpd.tandem.com> <28223@sybase.sybase.com> <1993Jan22.064326.23715@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada
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- In article <1993Jan22.064326.23715@midway.uchicago.edu> ss19@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >In article <28223@sybase.sybase.com> mysti@sierra.sybase.com (Mysti Rubert) writes:
- >>[On e-suckups]
- >>He hasn't claimed a false sense of
- >>familiarity, he has claimed to appreciate my writing. As a tech writer,
- >>that most universally despised producer of things no one wants to read,
- >>it's nice.
- > As a tech writer for a _database_ company, where no one even
- >wants to even _admit_ that the documents in question even exist,
- >let alone read them, it's nice.
-
- The place where I used to work encouraged the phone support & application
- engineers to help the tech writers as much as possible, on the sound basis
- that a bit of help before the books go out avoids a bunch of confused
- phone calls later. After one manual missed the vetting process, we kinda
- made sure all the subsequent releases made it our way first.
-
- "Ok, I plugged my card to the hot and ground, and it blew up! Oh, you
- mean hot is +5 volts, not 110? Ooops. Well, it didn't say so in the manual."
-
- Francois.
-