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In John's case, the requestor clearly did NOT go to source material (i.e.,
Techwhirl archives). If the person had, they would have found a reply
posted less than 2 weeks ago, with "Functional Design Specifications" in the
subject line.
In your case, you appeared to condemn a legitimate "source material" query.
The active
membership of the Techwhirl listserv IS the source material, and the student
had a reasonable request for information - what's happening in the trenches,
so to speak. Perhaps the student wanted to augment "published" surveys of
typical tech writing errors with "real time" events, from an established
source - comparing and contrasting, even. The student didn't ask the
listsev to *do* the analysis; the way I read it was the student was trying
to obtain raw data from which he/she could draw conclusions.
My $0.02....
Jill Waite
Dallas
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Herman Holtz [mailto:h -dot- holtz -at- worldnet -dot- att -dot- net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 10:19 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: Books on Writing Functional Specifications
>
>
> from: "John Posada" <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
>
> > I don't have a problem with answering an intelligent question over
> > and over.
> >
> > My problem is with people that spend so little effort looking for the
> > information on their own that they can't crank up their little
> > browser and enter two words in the search space or don't bother
> > looking at the archives to see if the EXACT same question was asked
>
> You surprise me. I thought that you agreed with others in condemning
me
> for saying virtually the same thing. - Herm
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