Re: New TECHWR-L Poll Question

[CHRISTINE ANAMEIER <CANAMEIE -at- email -dot- usps -dot- gov>]

     C'mon, guys, cut Fred some slack. He answered the question from his
     own perspective as a tech writer who documents software. (Whaddya
     want, a disclaimer? "Rant may not apply to hardware documentation.")

     As a software docs person myself, I nodded when I read his post. One
     of my pet peeves is having to insert a bunch of "CAUTION: ALLIGATOR
     PIT" warnings and ask thousands of users to change their behavior just
     because one or two developers were too lazy to fence off the alligator
     pit. (Dangerous hardware, of course, is a different story. I recognize
     that some things cannot be made completely safe and idiot-proof.)

     FWIW, if warnings are necessary, I try to put them where they're
     impossible to avoid, and I do not embed them in the text (i.e., within
     the paragraph) of a procedure or description.

     Christine




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