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Subject:Re: The Law of Unintended Consequences From:Tom Murrell <trmurrell -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 14 Apr 2003 12:22:15 -0700 (PDT)
--- "Stevenson, Rebecca" <Rebecca -dot- Stevenson -at- workscape -dot- com> wrote:
>
> To those of you contemplating how to make a formal documentation sign-off part of
> your process:
>
> Consider the possibility that once they are "responsible" <g> for the
> documentation, those who have to sign off on it will send you frantic updates and
> agonize *way* more than you do over word selection and comma placement up to and
> indeed beyond the deadline.
Ah, yes. What's that proverb? "Be Careful What You Wish For."
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