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Re: On the value of glossaries containing terms the audience should already know

Subject: Re: On the value of glossaries containing terms the audience should already know
From: Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: "Elissa K. Miller" <emiller -at- doubleknot -dot- com>, techwrl <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:05:17 -0800

There's ALWAYS going to be somebody looking at a manual who doesn't have the technical chops to understand every acronym in it. Leaving out the definitions will almost certainly increase the odds that that somebody will be the person whose signature is needed on a contract or PO to buy the product.

Gene Kim-Eng


On 12/19/2013 8:44 AM, Elissa K. Miller wrote:


But, the industry terms in the glossary are bugging me-they're defining
really basic terms like RFC, SSH, LDAP, DNS, and IP, and I don't think you
have any business mucking around with *anything* covered in this guide if
you don't know what DNS and IP mean.



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