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Subject:Re: Suggestions for new tool options From:Andrew Plato <intrepid_es -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 4 Jun 2001 13:35:02 -0700 (PDT)
Kristin Field sez..
> After reading his comments
> regarding your sarcasm, I am feeling rather @#!* off that you wasted your
> time and more importantly mine! I subscribed to this listserve hoping to
> have some place to get and offer some legitimate suggestions. If you sent
> your response as a legitimate answer to my questions, forgive me for not
> heeding your well-intentioned advice. Although I do not know you, this
> first encounter has caused me not to trust you. In the future, please do not
> respond to my posts.
Okay then.
You obviously don't want help, you want some group consensus that you should
throw away your existing tools and embrace complex, new expensive ones. Well,
many people will undoubtly tell you to do so. And they might be correct.
I don't think you do need to throw away Word. We've done lots of projects of
this size in Word. We saved our clients over $500,000 last year in
documentation and personnel costs. One reason was because we resisted urges to
rebuild everything because of a few glitches.
As Gunny Highway likes to say, "I'll send you home with that 'just pumped the
cat' look on your face." er I mean "You have to learn to adapt and improvise."
Booyah!
Andrew Plato
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