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Subject:Re: Let us test From:Pat Anderson <panders -at- AW -dot- SGI -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 6 Sep 1996 13:07:00 -0500
Wolf Lahti responded
<snip>
>Besides, this ia a test of a tech writer, not an illustrator. Maybe I should
>have stipulated "no pictures". This is a low-budget test, after all. :)
But I'd rather hire a tech writer who has enough sense to realize that
he/she should be using a photograph, illustration, or screen grab instead
of blathering for five paragraphs.
I thought it was a great response. (and why were you imagining that the
image was so poorly rendered that it could be confused with either a
bowling ball or a light globe, Wolf?)
...pat.
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Technical Publications Manager
panders -at- aw -dot- sgi -dot- com
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