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TECHWR-L Mailing List Archive July 1997

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須田信良

• 8-1/2 X 11 is available in Japan also

A Watkins

• experience with Requisite Pro?
• ref: use MAILTO:NAME -at- PROVIDER format in sigs . . .
• HTML editor/converter choices

A. Hermes

• technical catalog entries and abbreviations

A. J. Fite

• Re: Interview Questions

Alan P. Hayes

• Re: Spacing after a period...

Alessandro Bottoni

• Technical writer dream
• Technical writer dream made real?
• Stop this class war!
• Mail box full!
• A modest proposal
• TechWriter's themes
• Technical Writer Trade Union
• TW Trade union pourpose
• Offensive symbols in Italy

Alex Ragen

• Re: Master's Degree

Alexander Von_obert

• minimalist documentation?
• Which computer for a contractor?
• opinion on international date standards (kinda long)
• Technical Writer Trade Union
• 7 plus or minus 2
• Is this a Caution or a Warning
• 7 plus or minus 2

Alexia Prendergast

• Re: Students, STC, and Student Chapter--Need Advice
• Re: Spacing after a period...
• Re: Techwr-l Recurring Reduces (plural of redux, no? :)
• Re: Footers for Beta documentation
• Re: Measuring goals/benchmarking
• Re: Question about release notes
• searching the archives
• Re: Measuring goals/benchmarking
• Re: meeting goals/benchmarking
• Re: Minimalism
• Re: Humor: The software development process
• Re: Do you need a degree?
• gauging interest in book idea
• Re: Technical writer dream
• Re: Advice on work-for-hire rates
• Re: Contents at a Glance
• Re: Technical writer dream
• Re: Technical writer dream
• Re: How does one overcome... -Reply
• Re: Technical writer dream
• Re: Reuse of text/modular information
• Re: What do you think?
• Re: Dress Code *Results*
• Classism (was Degree or Not Degree)
• Arrogance (was RE: Degree Snobs)
• Re: Inappropriate interview....(Long but I'm venting so it's ok)
• Re: Salaries
• Fairly long: Hidden doc agendas (was RE: Slithery Words)
• Re: sans serif fonts
• Re: Technical Writer Trade Union
• Re: Greetings, Writers of Technical
• Long Summary: Good Interview Questions
• Re: Low $$ vs. "getting in the door"
• Re: Grant Writing
• Re: Friends at work? (was: Good interview questions)
• Re: Buzzwords & secret handshakes
• Re: Myths and Facts From SSI
• Re: Systems documents
• Re: What is conditional text?
• Re: More on "conditional text"
• Re: Myths and Facts From SSI
• FW: Long Summary: Good Interview Questions
• Re: To click on, or just to click?

Allison Brochu

• Re: Job Opportunity Anxiety

AlumsHubby

• Re: Do you need a degree?
• Today, Tech Writer; Tomorrow, ...?

Amy Brown

• Re: College Degrees
• Insecure about browser terminology
• Re: Need Interview Advice
• Missed another opportunity to be insecure

Amy M. Lattof

• FW: Non-standard Manual Sizes

Andie Coray

• Texas-Immediate openings

AndreaK

• Re: Another GenX-er heard from
• Re: Odd survey explained
• Re: Odd-size Manuals

Ann Balaban

• Permanent Position, Dallas area

annasoj

• Re[2]: success with finding jobs
• Re: Kerberos and Sesame trademark information?
• Re: Degree or No Degree: Who Cares?
• Re[2]: sans serif fonts
• Re: Friends at Work

Arnold Colodner

• Re: Technical writer dream

ArtElser

• Estimating pages per hour

Barb Philbrick

• Re: Reluctant SMEs (Was Re: Education and Productivity)
• Re: job angst
• Re: PC as a trademark
• Re: Scientific vs. Humanistic
• Re: success with finding jobs
• Re: Degrees
• Re: No-compete agreements
• Re: No-compete agreements
• Re: Bulleted lists... Is there a limit?
• Re: Finding Initial Freelance Contracts

Barbara Holcombe

• Word documents on AS/400

Barbara J. Miller

• Electronic Submittal of Proposals

Barclay Blanchard

• Re: Use of "your"

Barilone . Marni

• OOPS!

barryk

• How many spaces after a period?
• Re: Techwr-l Recurring Reduces (plural of redux, no? :)
• Re: job angst
• Re: How does one overcome...
• Re: How does one overcome...
• Re: Insecure about browser terminology
• Re: Inappropriate interview....(Long but I'm venting so it's ok)
• Re: Technical Writer Trade Union
• Re: Sans Serif Fonts

Bayne, Sonia E.

• The Infamous Survey, Redux (!)

Becca Barrett

• Re: Question about release notes

Becca Price

• help: topic title phrasing (long, sorry!)
• Re: Totally Online (Clean Slate)
• Re: troubleshooting guide
• Re: How does one overcome...
• Re: Reuse of text/modular information
• Re: Dress Code *Results*
• Re: Second Oldest Profession?

Ben Bradley

• "bump it up a notch"

Benjamin Keevil

• Re: Outlines and New FrameMaker Docs

Bergerson, Carl A

• Re: Different PostScript question

Bernice Kieffer

• Re: Students, STC, and Student Chapter
• Re: Terminology question

Beth Agnew

• Re: experience with Requisite Pro?
• Re: Master's degree
• Re: [2]: success with finding jobs
• Re: Courses to Take
• Re: Non-Competition and Integrity
• Re: Contents at a Glance
• Re: Courses to Take
• Re: Use of "your"
• Re: What do you think?
• Re: GUI documentation
• Second Oldest Profession?
• Re: Resume Length (2 pages ok?)
• Slithery Words
• Re: Copyright Issue
• Re: Salaries
• Estimating Work (was Price Range for User Manual)
• Professionalism (was Agencies)
• Re: "bump it up a notch"
• Re: Odd Survey explained
• Re: Project idea (was: RE: Myths and Facts From SSI)

Beth Brooks

• Cnvrtng troff to Frame: Need Help
• A Survey (of sorts)

Beth Mazur

• Re: FWD: Students, STC, and Student Chapter--Need Advice
• Re: Spacing after a period...
• Re: Re[2]: Spacing after a period...
• Re: Techwr-l Recurring Reduces (plural of redux, no? :)
• Re: Student chapter
• Re: Techwr-l Recurring Reduces (plural of redux, no? :)
• Re: To ellipse or not to ellipse
• Re: Techwr-l Recurring Reduces (plural of redux, no? :)

Betsy Perry

• Re: Friends at work? (was: Good interview questions) (fwd)

Bickham, Randy W.

• Re: Webmaster Associations

Bill Bledsoe

• Re: Systems documents

Bill Burns

• Re: Which medium for docs?
• Re: FrameMaker 5.0 vs. Word '97
• Re: Advice needed on SkillTech Seminar
• Re: Different PostScript question
• Re: Use of "your"
• Re: Document Customization
• FW: Use of "your"
• Re: Schema theory
• Re: Conditional text and help development
• Re: Conditional text and help development
• Re: Word to Acrobat

Bill DuBay

• Re: FWD: Students, STC, and Student Chapter--Need Advice
• Re: Compare Thee to a Database
• Re: Spacing after a period...
• Re: PUNCTATION AND QUOTATION
• Free Speech on the Net
• Re: Rules of thumb in estimating
• Re: Question about release notes
• Re: minimalist documentation?

BILL KONRAD

• Re: Techwr-l Recurring Reduces (plural of redux, no? :)
• Re: To ellipse or not to ellipse
• fwd: Converting PowerPoint 4 file to HTML
• fwd: Re: e-mailing docs based on templates
• Re: Minimalism

Bill Sullivan

• Who Asked About Online Grammar?
• abbreviations, acronyms, and glossaries -Reply
• Has anyone ever hear of an .shg file? -Reply
• Design of GUI/Web Application Interfaces -- UIE's Web Site Usability Report -Reply
• Minimalism -- Not So Fast
• Minimalism -- Chasing the Funnel
• Abbreviations -Reply
• What is right -Reply

bkane

• New department name
• SUM'RY: Dept. names
• Salaries in Boston & Wa.DC areas

Bob Armao

• Re: Offensive symbols

Bob Handlin

• Re: What do you think?

Bob Morrisette

• Re: Color Printers
• Re: New department name
• Re: Courses to Take
• Re: Courses to Take
• Re: Reference on freelance rates and contracts

Bonnie Granat

• (Fwd) Re: What is the plural of...
• Internet Explorer 4.0
• Re: sans serif fonts

BPezzini

• Re: e-mailing docs based on templates

Brady Hartman

• Job OPPORTUNITY: Online Help/RoboHelp/Doc-To-Help

Brett Peruzzi

• Converting PowerPoint 4 file to HTML

Brian Martin

• dress codes, degrees, class

Bridget M Kerr

• Auto TOC in MS Weird 6.0

Bruce Byfield

• Client Wants to Charge for Use of Equipment!
• FWD: Students, STC, and Student Chapter--Need Advice
• Re: Student chapter
• Job Angst
• Re: spacing after a period...
• Re: Do you need a degree?
• Re: Courses to Take
• Abbreviations
• No-compete agreements
• Metaphors to aid description?
• Contents at a Glance
• Tool for OS/2 Screen Captures and Help
• Re: Degree or Not Degree?
• Re: Second Oldest Profession?
• Re: San Serifs
• Re: Inappropriate interview....(Long but I'm venting so it's ok)
• Job-Hunting Tips Now Posted
• Re: How to get that first TW contract
• Bulleted lists... Is there a limit?
• Re: Resume Length (2 pages ok?)
• Buzzwords & secret handshakes
• Bullet List Blues

Bryan Slagle

• "A" or "An" Ouija board?
• Disregard: "A" or "An" Ouija board? (oops, wrong list :)

BrYan Westbrook

• Trademark Protection (was: PC as trademark/copyright)
• Re: What is "-30-" at the bottom of an article
• Re: (Fwd) Re: Master's Degree
• Re: (Fwd) Re: Master's Degree

Buck Buchanan

• Re: Grow UP and stop knocking those with degrees!!!!
• Job listing
• Re: Resume Length (2 pages ok?)
• Re: Resume length
• How to get that first TW contract
• Re: Dreams and My Last word Re: Degree vs. Experience (sarcasm alert)
• Re: Dreams
• Re: Inappropriate interview....(Long but I'm venting so it's ok)
• Re: Which computer for a contractor?
• Re: opinion on international date standards (kinda long)
• Re: Electronic Submittal of Proposals
• Re: sans serif fonts
• Re: Salaries
• Re: Price Range for User Manual
• Re: Price Range for User Manual
• Re: Help! - Save Problem in Word97
• Re: Rules in tables
• Re: MS word--space hog
• Re: PLC
• Re: Offensive symbols
• Re: My Bonney Lies Over the Ocean
• Re: Is this a Caution or a Warning
• Re: Odd-size Manuals
• Re: HTML editors

Candace Bamber

• Re: Skills
• Questions about the degree issue...

Candie McKee

• Re: Price Range for User Manual Summary
• Re: Who writes employment exams?

Carl Rudorf

• Re[2]: success with finding jobs
• Re: Skills?
• Re[2]: Degree or No Degree: Who Cares?
• Re[2]: Degree or No Degree: Who Cares?

Carl Stieren

• Happy Fourth of July, American TECHWR-Lers!

Carla Lotito

• Re: Question about release notes

Carol Chubiz

• Call for classes

Carole Dossing

• Color Printers
• More on Color Printer
• FrameMaker 5.0 vs. Word '97

Carolyn_Gillis

• Re: Navigation in pdf
• Outlines and New FrameMaker Docs

Cathy Krusberg

• Friends at work? (was: Good interview questions)

Charlotte Hybschmann Jacobsen

• Organising documents

Cheryl Dwyer

• Job: Tech Writer, Washington, DC Metro Area, USA

Cheryle Wiese

• Re: Use of "your"
• Re: Use of "your"
• Entry-level salary question for Pacific Northwest region
• Degrees?
• Re: Degrees?
• Resume Length (2 pages ok?)-REPLY
• Need interview advice :)
• You guys are the best! :)
• Interview-Update
• The plot thickens ...
• More interview news ...
• Microsoft Access list?
• This Strange Survey
• My survey of one says ...
• Re: My survey of one says ...CLARIFICATION
• caps are the "root" of all evil? ;)
• Clarified once again ...
• *Another* clarification
• OOPS! Sorry for duplicate post! :(

Chris Betterton

• A or An?
• Summary: A or An
• Re: New department name

Chris Daunhauer

• Re: minimalist documentation?
• Degree vs. Experience (sarcasm alert)
• Re: Resume Length (2 pages ok?)
• Buzzwords (light TW humor)

Chris Hamilton

• Re: Spacing after a period...
• My profuse apologies
• Kerberos and Sesame trademark information?
• Re: Use of "your"
• Re: What is the plural of...
• Re: What do you think?
• Re: Skills?
• Re: Second Oldest Profession?
• Documentation Management books
• Re: Documentation Management books
• Summary -- documentation management books
• Offensive symbols and the breadth of our profession

Chris Hargens

• Examples of bad technical writing

Christine Fedruk

• Re: How does one overcome... -Reply
• Low $$ vs. "getting in the door"

Christopher Knight

• Re: DTP Packages
• Re: French or Latin? (was Re: sans serif fonts)
• Re: Price Range for User Manual
• Re: Help! - Save Problem in Word97
• Rules in tables
• Re: Bulleted lists... Is there a limit?
• Re: Systems documents
• Re: What is conditional text?
• Re: 7 plus or minus 2
• Re: More on "conditional text"
• Re: Odd-size Manuals
• Re: To click on, or just to click?
• Re: Latin vs. Germanic
• Single-step procedures

Chuck Melikian

• Re: 7 plus or minus 2
• Re: What is conditional text? (long reply)

cindy

• Re: Latex and indexes?

ckime

• Re[2]: success with finding jobs

Craig Faichney

• Re: Spacing after a period...

Cramer, Kim

• Re: help: topic title phrasing
• Re: Spacing after a period...
• Re: PUNCTATION AND QUOTATION
• Re: meeting goals/benchmarking
• Re: Focus Group Information Needed
• Re: Question about release notes
• Re: Tricky Possessives
• Re: success with finding jobs/college degrees
• Re: What is right
• Re: Metaphor abuse
• Re: How does one overcome...
• Re: Tool for OS/2 Screen Captures and Help - Summary
• Re: disclosure (was Re: LAW: (long) enforceability of noncompeteagreements)
• Re: Degrees?
• Re: Degrees?
• Re: Second Oldest Profession?
• Re: Need interview advice :)
• Re: Systems documents
• Re: Doc-To-Help vs. Robohelp (long)

cronin

• compare thee to a database

Dan BRINEGAR

• Re: Students, STC, and Student Chapter--Need Advice
• Re: Job Opportunity Anxiety
• Re: Document Management Feasability
• Re: What do you think?[long]
• Re: Dress Code *Results*
• Re: Degree Snobs [really long]
• Re: musing about degree requirements (long)
• Re: Skills?
• Re: Resume Length (2 pages ok?)
• Dreams and My Last word Re: Degree vs. Experience (sarcasm alert)
• Re: Shades of gray
• Re: On the Lighter Side . . .
• Re: What are "must" haves for Tech. Writers?
• Re: Thanks, Supportive Spices & SOs
• Re: How to get that first TW contract
• Re: Slithery words and eliciting reactions
• Re: Price Range for User Manual
• The Sands of Tie
• Re: Bulleted lists... Is there a limit?
• Re: Latex and indexes?
• Detailed Resumes?
• Re: Life Cycles [Was: Buzzwords & secret handshakes]
• Re: TECH. WRITING SURVEY - OPINIONS REQUESTED
• Re: Odd Survey explained [LONG!]
• Re: 7 plus or minus 2
• Re: "Air Force One" supports our craft!
• Re: Interview Questions
• Re: Myths and Facts From SSI
• Followup: Detailed Resumes?
• Re: Lies Over the Ocean

Daniel Wise

• STC Student Chapter
• Indexing Jokes
• No-compete agreements
• Measuring Our Value
• Re: Odd-size Manuals
• Re: Offensive Symbols

Danny Wood

• Re: FWD: Students, STC, and Student Chapter--Need Advice
• Re: Compare Thee to a Database
• Re: HELP:Acronym/ Glossary page numbers
• Re: Techwr-l Recurring Reduces (plural of redux, no? :)
• Re: PUNCTATION AND QUOTATION
• Re: Techwr-l Recurring Reduces (plural of redux, no? :)
• Re: Stop It! Was: Spacing after a period...
• Re: PUNCTATION AND QUOTATION
• Quoted commands, was Punctuation Revisionism
• Re: Footers for Beta documentation

Darla Kennington

• To ellipse or not to ellipse

Dave Chisma & Gail Hodgson

• Re: TECH. WRITING SURVEY

Dave Harrity

• Re: bindings
• Re: Can I say, 'me too!!'

Dave Quebbeman

• Interleaf links in Acrobat

Dave Whelan

• Re: What do you think?
• Re: Latin vs. Germanic

David

• Re: Documentation-based training

David Boss

• Re: Converting PowerPoint 4 file to HTML
• Re: TOC in Brochure?

David Castro

• Re: Creativity in resumes

David Demyan

• Re: Has anyone ever hear of an .shg file?
• Re: TECH. WRITING SURVEY - OPINIONS REQUESTED

David Dvorkiin

• Re: Technical writer dream made real?
• Previous Post

David Dvorkin

• Re: If you could choose...

David Locke

• Student Chapter
• Re: meeting goals/benchmarking
• Re: Salaries

Deborah S. Bosley

• Request for Case Studies

Deborah Turton

• writing lists

Dennis Hays

• Re: FWD: Students, STC, and Student Chapter--Need Advice
• FrameMaker, Certification, and Training
• Rates and Raves Survey
• Survey Release
• TECHWR-L Rates Survey
• Thank you
• To be an Engineer, or not to be...
• Rates and Raves Survey Availability

Diane Burke

• Re: FWD: Job Opportunity Anxiety
• Re: FWD: Job Opportunity Anxiety

diane haugen

• Re: Schema theory

Dianne Walsh

• job angst
• Re: job angst
• job angst--the outcome (a bit long)
• thanks
• sans serif fonts
• CBT

Dick Margulis

• Re: Spacing after a period...

Dimi Everette

• Catching Up
• Tech Writer Humor
• Apologies

Documania

• Agencies
• Interview Protocol (was Friends at Work)

don . lenk

• End-User Information Needs Assessment

Don Koneval

• Reply: Please focus on the "technical" on this list
• Is this a Caution or a Warning

Don Sargent

• Is there a lesson in this?
• Re: A Young Profession
• Again...A Young Profession
• Is this symposium worthy?
• Re: Where is everybody?
• Odd survey explained
• Re: Odd Survey explained

Donald J. Plummer

• Re: What is the plural of e-mail
• Re: musing about degree requirements (long)
• Re: Latin vs. Germanic

Donald Ray

• Permanent Technical Writer Job Posting
• Technical Writer Position Open
• Technical Writer Position Open
• Re: Resume Length (2 pages ok?)
• Looking for a Style Guide for Graphic Illustrations

Donald White

• Re: Dress Code/from a TieGuy

DoreenM520

• Re: Free Speech on the Net
• Re: Free Speech on the Net

Dr. Bill Warner

• Desktop Publishing & Graphics programs

DWeber

• Contract Work
• Re: e-mailing docs based on templates
• Re: abbreviations, acronyms, and glossaries -Reply
• Do I take the risk?
• Grow UP and stop knocking those with degrees!!!!
• Re[2]: Grow UP and stop knocking those with degrees!!!!
• Re: Prime example of misunderstanding (degrees)
• Dress code
• Resume Length (2 pages ok?)
• Inappropriate interview....(Long but I'm venting so it's ok)
• Thanks for the comments on inappropriate interview...
• Re[2]: Inappropriate interview....
• Re: sans serif fonts
• 4 yrs of writing, and NOW I'm questioning fonts
• Re[2]: Salaries
• Re[3]: Salaries
• Re[2]: Price Range for User Manual
• Re: "bump it up a notch"
• Re: Help! - Save Problem in Word97
• Bulleted lists... Is there a limit?
• update to inappropriate interview
• Doc-To-Help vs. Robohelp

E,T, Hull

• Mark Twain

E. G. M.

• Which computer for a contractor?

Elizabeth Brownrigg

• out-of-memory message in WinHelp

Elizabeth Chesla

• Technical Communications Instructors

Elizabeth Huth

• Re: Is this a Caution or a Warning

Elizabeth Reed

• Tech Writing Agencies/Contractors - Northern Virginia

Elle LaMarre

• Re: Spacing after a period...

Ellen Roddy

• Re: TECHWR-L Digest - 27 Jul 1997 to 28 Jul 1997

Elna Tymes

• Printing bids - surprise!
• Re: Kinko's
• Re: Pathfinder tech writers?
• Re: minimalist documentation?
• Re: troubleshooting guide
• Re: success with finding jobs
• Re: LAW: (long) enforceability of noncompete agreements
• Re: No-compete agreements
• Re: LAW: (long) enforceability of noncompete agreements
• Re: LAW: (long) enforceability of noncompete agreements
• Re: FWD: Job Opportunity Anxiety
• Re: job angst--the outcome (a bit long)
• Re: Dress Code *Results*
• Re: Insecure about browser terminology
• Re: Degree or Not Degree?
• Re: Skills?
• Re: Interview-Update
• Re: Inappropriate interview....(Long but I'm venting so it's ok)
• Re: Price Range for User Manual
• Re: "bump it up a notch"
• Re: "bump it up a notch"
• Re: salaries
• Re: Scoping out possible document management solutions
• Re: Myths and Facts From SSI
• Re: Non-standard Manual Sizes
• Re: Odd-size Manuals

Emily Leavitt/Shiva Corporation

• Re: WebWorks
• Re: Reuse of text/modular information

Engstrom, Douglas D.

• JOB: Johnston (Des Moines) Iowa, USA
• Re: Organising documents

Eric Brown

• Re: Different PostScript question

Eric Falkof

• Re: What is "-30-" at the bottom of an article

Eric Haddock

• Re: What do you think?
• Re: What do you think?
• Dress code (was: RE: What do you think?)
• Dress Code *Results*
• Re: Dress Code *Results*
• Re: Salaries
• Re: sans serif fonts
• French or Latin? (was Re: sans serif fonts)
• Re: What is STC?
• Re: Is this a Caution or a Warning
• Re: Idea for more graphics and better archiving

Eric J. Ray

• FWD: Students, STC, and Student Chapter--Need Advice
• FWD: STC and Student Chapter Followup
• ADMIN Re: Free Speech on the Net
• ADMIN: Re: Free Speech on the Net and Posting Rules
• ADMIN: Please help with digest problem
• Design of GUI/Web Application Interfaces -- UIE's Web Site Usability Report
• Re: success with finding jobs
• ADMIN: Why Norton?
• Re: Advice on work-for-hire rates
• ADMIN: Posting Rules
• ADMIN: Subscription Q & A
• ADMIN: The Scenario
• FWD: Job Opportunity Anxiety
• Re: A Question for WinWord Gurus
• Skills?
• ADMIN: Drop the attacks
• ADMIN: Thanks! Re: WORD DOT's & INI's
• FWD: Copyright Issue
• ADMIN: Re: ? "Technical" = Male ?
• ADMIN: Rules, Humor and Other
• ADMIN: Subscription Q and A

Eric Peterson

• Release Notes
• Framemaker vs. Word 95 - graphics linking

Estella Clifford

• Re: TECH. WRITING SURVEY - OPINIONS REQUESTED
• Re: TECH. WRITING SURVEY - OPINIONS REQUESTED
• Re: Odd Survey explained

Fabien Vais

• Re: Focus Group Information Needed
• Re: Courses to Take
• Re: Human Relations Success Stories: Tech Writers and Developers
• Re: How does one overcome...
• Re: Thanks, Supportive Spices & SOs
• Re: TECH. WRITING SURVEY - OPINIONS REQUESTED

Feeman Kevin SC2275

• Re: Punctuation Revisionism
• What is right
• Spell Checkers - Believe it or Not?
• Re: Dress Code/from a TieGuy
• Anyone going?
• Word to Acrobat

Floramaria Deter

• Looking for Word & DTP help/survey
• Re: What is the plural of...

Frank Clark

• MSWord different spacing on multiple workstations

Friedman, Michael

• Re: A or An?

Gaffney, Gerry

• Re: Schema theory

Gail Gurman

• Writing Tutorials

Garison, John

• "HTML Help in a Hurry" to launch at Help University Summer Camp
• Help University Summer Camp is SOLD OUT
• Documentation Manager position in Ft. Lauderdale

Gary Conroy

• Win a copy of Making Money in Technical Writing

Gen Whitt

• Updating graphics links in Word
• Finding Initial Freelance Contracts
• Frame conversion to PDF: losing links
• Tutorial software: results
• [no subject]

Geoff Lane

• Re: What is conditional text?

geoff-h

• Wordless manuals redux <grin>
• Student chapter
• Database metaphors
• a/an .eel extension
• Ellipsis
• Job angst
• Online help productivity
• Percentages
• Lost formatting?
• Scientific calculators?
• Minimalism
• Humor: The software development process
• Abbreviations
• Electronic thesis
• Troubleshooting guides
• Reference on freelance rates and contracts
• No-compete agreements
• Metaphor abuse
• Tables of contents?
• Numbers of days
• Postscript problems
• Plural of e-mail
• How does a female overcome...?
• Flatter learning curves
• Reuse of text/modular information
• Word -> AS/400
• Schema theory
• Defensible assertions?
• Tech. writing list
• Leveraging through reuse
• Browser security
• Dress codes
• Resume length/insecure vs. nonsecure
• "Dress" codes
• Writing for visually impaired readers
• Anonymous copyright problem
• Flexible computers?>
• Modules vs. components
• Legibility of sans serif?
• Creative resumes
• Certification spreads beyond techwr-l!
• Maintaining consistency in multi-person projects
• Limits on bulleted lists?
• Rules in tables
• LaTex and indexing
• Pretty resumes, take II
• 7 plus or minus 2
• Excuciatingly detailed resumes
• Excruciatingly detailed resumes, take II
• Excruciating resumes, take III
• Miller's 7 plus or minus 2
• Overly long bulleted lists?
• Touchy, ain't we?
• Sending customers your doc files?
• Offensive symbols?
• Warning or caution?
• Faking conditional text?
• Lists of headings

George F. Hayhoe

• Kinko's
• Software Metrics
• Looking for Issues of 1970 _Technical Communication_

GERALDINE WHITT

• Urgent! Need Online Tutorial Software

GeriLou Ciotoli

• Framemaker
• Re: Tool for OS/2 Screen Captures and Help - Summary
• Re: bindings
• Re: Entry-level salary question for Pacific Northwest region
• Re: DTP Packages
• Position Open - Hartford, CT
• Re: Interleaf links in Acrobat
• Help! - Save Problem in Word97
• Update to Word97 problem

Gerry Stoner

• Re: Spacing after a period...

Ginna Watts

• Frame Indexers in Victoria BC? (Contract)

gloria

• Re: Client Wants to Charge for Use of Equipment!

Goodin, Bill

• UCLA Short Course on "User-Centered Prototyping: Process and Prod uct"

Gretchen Toth

• Market Research sources

Gurudutt Kamath

• Re: Courses to Take
• Re: FWD: Copyright Issue
• Books on Technical Writing
• Re: Magazines, books

Guy Thomas

• Sony-Brussels looking for technical communicators

Hage, Leslie

• Lotus ScreenCam vs. Adobe Premier

Hager, Peter J

• [no subject]

Hamilton, Susan

• Re: Compare Thee to a Database

Hannah Draper

• Re: Printing bids - surprise!

Harrison Brace

• Document Catalogs
• Using Word 97 and "Mirroring" files
• Templates for manuals

Heather Achtziger

• writing doc. for a severly visually impaired audience
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• Hmmmmm. . . " 'nough said"??!!

Heidt, Kim (AZ15)

• Indexing Question

Heli Roosild

• Re: Non-standard Manual Sizes
• Re: Non-standard Manual Sizes

Hellerman, Philip

• Totally Online (Clean Slate)
• Distributing Doc via WWW (Intranet)

Hillary Jones

• minimalist documentation?
• Re: minimalist documentation?
• Re: Do you need a degree?
• Master's degree: shop shop shop!
• non-compete--where've I been?
• Re: What do you think?
• Re: musing about degree requirements
• Re: Resume length
• Re: recurrent topics (was Degree brouhaha)
• Re: Resume length
• Re: Bulleted lists... Is there a limit?
• Survey

Hope Creskoff

• Re: Footers for Beta documentation
• meeting goals/benchmarking
• Re: meeting goals/benchmarking

Horace Smith

• Use of you
• DTP Packages

Horton, Chris

• Re: Stop It! Was: Spacing after a period...
• Re: Converting PowerPoint 4 file to HTML
• [no subject]
• [no subject]
• writing programs

Huber, Mike

• Re: Stop It! Was: Spacing after a period...
• Re: Tokenization (Was: RE: Stop It! Was: Spacing after a period...
• Re: What is right
• Re: What do you think?
• Re: sans serif fonts
• Re: Help! - Save Problem in Word97
• Re: My Bonney Lies Over the Ocean
• Oops... RE: My Bonney Lies Over the Ocean
• Re: To click on, or just to click?

Iain Harrison

• Re: Courses to Take
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• Re: Is a browser "insecure" or "nonsecure"?
• Re: Techcomm list
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• Re: What is conditional text?
• Re: Conditional text and help development

Ira L. Jacobson

• Re: English

Irene Wong

• Air force 1 in Australia

Ivan Volaric

• Technical WRITERS
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Ivie, Guy

• Re: Microtek Scanners
• Word/Excel version conversion
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• Re: Word/Excel version conversion

J Forsyth

• Selective index linking in Acrobat

J M Forsyth

• Fw: New products here and on the horizon?

J. Shaw

• Re: Students, STC, and Student Chapter--Need Advice
• Re: Rules of thumb in estimating (long)

jack w. bonney

• TECH. WRITING SURVEY - OPINIONS REQUESTED

Jan Stanley

• Bulleted lists

Jane Bergen

• Terminology question
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• Re: Bulleted lists... Is there a limit?
• Re: Looking for a Style Guide for Graphic Illustrations

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• Advice needed on SkillTech Seminar

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• Re: abbreviations, acronyms, and glossaries
• Re: Dress Code *Results*
• Re: Internet Explorer 4.0
• Re: How to get that first TW contract

Janice Gelb

• Re: Technical writer dream
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• GUI Documentation
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Jason Willebeek-LeMair

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• When I use a word. . .
• Re: Non-standard Manual Sizes

Jean Haney

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• Re: Framemaker vs. Word 95 - graphics linking
• Re: Degree or Not Degree?
• Re: Interview-Update

Jeff Hooker

• Has anyone ever hear of an .shg file?
• Making money off this degree/no degree debate

Jeff Jansen

• Re: Use of "your"

Jeffrey Pittman

• what do you call #*?
• Re: To click on, or just to click?
• Re: Warning or caution?

Jennie Achtemichuk

• Seminar: Web-based Training Primer
• Seminar: Designing Interactive Online Training

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• Re: MAGAZINE SEARCH

Jennifer Jelinek

• Re: job angst
• Re: Do you need a degree?
• TEST MESSAGE
• Document Management Feasability
• Re: How does one overcome...
• Re: What do you think?
• Re: Dress Code *Results*
• Good Intro to Programming book?
• Another GenX-er heard from
• TOC in Brochure?
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• Re: Salaries

Jennifer O Neill

• Simplified Dutch

Jessica N Lange

• Internet Explorer 4.0

Jill Burgchardt

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• Re: FWD: Students, STC, and Student Chapter--Need Advice
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jill nicholson

• 'Me too' for bad tech writing

Jim Bauman

• Still one more item on Wordless manuals

Jim McAward

• Re: Rules of Thumb in Estimating...
• Dress Code/from a TieGuy

Jim Purcell

• Re: Minimalism
• Re: Error in "What do you think?" (long)
• FW: Buzzwords & secret handshakes
• Re: TECH. WRITING SURVEY - OPINIONS REQUESTED

JIMCHEVAL

• Re: Compare Thee to a Database
• Re: Techwr-l Recurring Reduces (plural of redux, no? :)
• Re: Happy Fourth of July, American TECHWR-Lers!
• The ARRGH list (was 'recurring', etc.)
• Re: Free Speech on the Net
• Re: IRS contracting rules that affect tech writers--possible change
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• Re: troubleshooting guide
• Re: success with finding jobs
• Re: success with finding jobs
• Re: Re[2]: success with finding jobs
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• Re: Friends at work? (was: Good interview questions)
• Re: Knowledge Transfer; the Survey

jmf

• Always re-doing links in Acrobat

Joan Smith

• Re: Master's Degree
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joanne grey

• Re: Technical Writer Trade Union

JoAnne Lagendyk

• Re: Inappropriate interview....
• Re: Price Range for User Manual Summary

Jody LaFerriere

• Re: Slithery words and eliciting reactions
• Re: Price Range for User Manual
• Re: Re[2]: Price Range for User Manual
• FW: Odd survey explained

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• Re: Do you need a degree?

Joe Sokohl

• Many Thanks re: Equip/Fixed Bid Comments
• HTML Transit & FrameMaker

John . Cornellier

• Which medium for docs?
• abbreviations, acronyms, and glossaries
• Headers & footers - what to put in them?
• Metaphors to aid description?
• clothes, pay, skills, certification, education survey
• Canadian techwriters

John Bell

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John Eldard

• Re: Free Speech on the Net
• Re: Copyright issue
• Re: Copyright Issue

John Engler

• Re: Compare Thee to a Database
• experience sharing vs bashing

John Glenn

• Re: Do you need a degree?
• Re: Contents at a Glance
• Wanted: TW w/MS-Access
• Resume Length (Ad1 and mtk)
• Re: Inappropriate interview > Fonts
• Re: Agencies
• Re: Resume Length (2 pages ok?)
• Re: Odd Survey explained
• lower case comment

John Gough

• LAW: (long) enforceability of noncompete agreements
• Re: LAW: (long) enforceability of noncompete agreements
• Re: LAW: (long) enforceability of noncompete agreements
• disclosure (was Re: LAW: (long) enforceability of noncompete agreements)
• Odd survey (includes links to requestor)

John Gratton

• This degree kelter
• Re[2]: To click on, or just to click?

John Posada

• Re: PUNCTATION AND QUOTATION
• Web Developer Associations
• Re: Color Printers
• Re: Spacing after a period...
• Re: Resume Length (2 pages ok?)
• Re: Inappropriate interview....(Long but I think it is appro
• opinion on international date standards (kinda long)
• Re: Certification spreads beyond techwr-l!
• Re: Jeez...did THAT go out with errors...Certification sprea
• Re: Excuciatingly detailed resumes

John Russell

• Job Posting: Albany NY
• Re: Contents at a Glance

John Trollope

• Javascript and frames - simplify navig for users
• Javascript and frames - simplify navig for users

John Wheeler

• SSI Facts and Myths, etc.

Johnson, Ben

• Focus Group Information Needed

Josee Sevigny

• Re: Non-standard Manual Sizes

Josée Sévigny

• Re: HTML editor/converter choices

Joy Zigo

• Design of GUI/Web Application Interfaces (off topic?)
• Re: Design of GUI/Web Application Interfaces -- UIE's Web Si

Judy Litt

• Re: Spacing after a period...

Julie

• Re: Word/Excel version conversion
• Re: Excruciating resumes, take III

Julie F. Hesselgesser

• Question about release notes

Julie Tholen

• Rejoining/bio
• GUI documentation
• Conflict Video Review

Jyoti R

• Re: GUI documentation
• Me too' for bad tech writing

Kamela J. Salyers

• [no subject]
• FrameMaker 5.0 or Ventura 7.0 --which is better?

Karen Diliberti

• Cancellation

Karen Kay

• Re: Compare Thee to a Database
• Re: Master's Degree
• Re: Skills?
• Re: Degree or Not Degree?
• Re: Bulleted lists... Is there a limit?

Karen Pogue

• online documentation

Karen Rodgers

• Re: MSWord different spacing on multiple workstations
• Re: Dress Code *Results*

Karen Servance

• JOB: Project Manager for RTP, NC

Kari Alt

• Information Mapping
• Information Mapping

Kat Nagel/MasterWork

• Re: Degree or No Degree: Who Cares?
• Re: Help! - Save Problem in Word97
• Re: Resume Length (2 pages ok?)
• Re: Grant Writing
• Re: Friends at work? (was: Good interview questions)
• CHAT: The Great Space Controversy

Katherin King

• [no subject]
• Degree or Not Degree?
• Dreams and My Last word...
• Salaries
• Re: sans serif font
• Systems documents
• Sending customers your doc files

Katherine Wilson

• Screen dumps into online help
• A4 usage

Kathleen Frost

• RoboHELP courses
• Re: LAW: (long) enforceability of non-compete agreements
• Re: Second Oldest Profession?
• Re: Profession of Technical Writing
• Practical work experience
• Re: Writing Quote/Apologies
• Re: Resume Length
• Re: Interview-Update
• Re: Terminology - Window/screen/dialog
• Re: TECHWR-L Digest - 26 Jul 1997 to 27 Jul 1997
• Re: TECHComm subsription info
• Re: Lost all save email
• Re: conditional text

Kathleen Padova

• Re: Non-standard Manual Sizes

Kathryn J Acciari

• Re: Web Folks I need your input
• Interview Questions

kathy

• TW-Distance Learning Degree Available?
• Re: Price Range for User Manual

Kathy Borg-Todd

• LaTeX and Indexing

Kathy Fisher

• degree

Kathy Marshall

• Re: job angst
• Re: Rules of thumb in estimating
• Re: Measuring goals/bemchmarking
• Re: Non-standard Manual Sizes

Kathy Ono

• Re: Is A4 used in Asia?

Keary Brandon

• Re: Bulleted lists... Is there a limit?
• Re: Query: Translations & legal issues
• Re: Myths and Facts From SSI

Kees de Bondt

• Re: Rules in tables

Keith Soltys

• Re: Outlines and New FrameMaker Docs
• Peter Kent Book Giveaway
• Re: Different PostScript question
• Re: Second Oldest Profession?

Kelly Williamson

• Conditional text in online help

Kenny Cherry

• salaries

Kent Dannehl

• Re: TECH. WRITING SURVEY - OPINIONS REQUESTED
• Re: Odd survey explained

Kerry Ogata

• Jobs: 3 Tech Writers, 1 Editor/Writer Needed (DC Area)

Kevin Smith

• Re: Spacing After a Period

Key,Sharon

• Folio Views

Kgikaren

• US-NC Tech Writing Positions

kharris

• MS-Word vs. Frame

Kim Keegan

• Re: What is right
• Re: What is the plural of...
• Re: another recurring thread: policing the list

Kimba

• Re: success with finding jobs
• Buzzwords & secret handshakes

Kimberly Ferri Cakebread

• Re: Re[2]: Master's Degree

Kippi Fagerlund

• Re: Printing bids - surprise!
• Re: job angst
• Re: Kerberos and Sesame trademark information?
• Re: Lone Writers' Professional Interest Committee

Kirstin Mercer

• Re: Students, STC, and Student Chapter--Need Advice
• UK word for hash mark?

Klopfenstein, Ed (AFS)

• standards
• Re: "bump it up a notch"
• Re: Agencies
• Re: Rules in tables
• Re: Scoping out possible document management solutions
• PLC
• Survey
• Crime?
• Re: Crime?
• Re: Lynching?
• Re: Odd Survey explained

Kris Olberg

• Re: Javascript and frames - simplify navig for users
• Re: HELP:Acronym/ Glossary page numbers
• Re: Javascript and frames - simplify navig for users
• Re: Design of GUI/Web Application Interfaces -- UIE's Web SiteUsability Report
• Re: Degrees
• Re: MS-Word vs. Frame
• Use of "your"
• Re: Metaphors to aid description?
• Use of "your": Clarification
• Re: Market Research sources
• Re: What do you think?
• Re: Degree or Not Degree?
• Re: Rules in tables
• Re: Buzzwords & secret handshakes

Kristen Case

• Re: How to get that first TW contract
• Advice needed on accepting that first tech. writing job

Kristin Nietz

• newsletter templates

L. Burnham O'Donald

• Re: Finding Initial Freelance Contracts
• Re: Resume Length (2 pages ok?)

Larry Kunz ((919) 254-6395)

• Web Developer Associations

LARS BRADLEY

• Re: FrameMaker 5.0 vs. Word '97
• Re: Degrees?
• proofreading
• proofreading rate
• proofreading

Lars Helge Semb

• Re: Contents at a Glance

Laura Bean Warner

• Re: pharmaceutical industry

Laura Grosvenor

• Percent
• A Young Profession

LaVonna Funkhouser

• Re: Kinko's

Laws, Charles @JOCY

• PC as a trademark

Lee Bumgarner

• LAW: enforceability of noncompete agreements

Len Olszewski

• Re: Contents at a Glance
• Re: Latex and indexes?

Linda Berris

• What is STC?

Linda Laurie

• Re: What do you think?
• WinPro Online Press Announcement
• Advanced Online Help Class in Seattle
• Re: Price Range for User Manual Summary
• Re: Is this a Caution or a Warning
• Re: Price Range for User Manual Summary
• Re: Auto TOC in MS Weird 6.0
• Re: Warning or caution?
• A job opening in the Seattle area
• Re: Re[2]: To click on, or just to click?
• Re: Single-step procedures

Lionel Wolberger

• Use the mailto: prefix in your email signatures

Lisa Ann Miller

• ODD SURVEY - BUNK
• Latin vs. Germanic

Lisa Higgins

• Stop It! Was: Spacing after a period...
• Re: How does one overcome...
• Re: Dress Code *Results*
• Re: update to inappropriate interview

Lisa Price

• Re: Low $$ vs. "getting in the door"

Liz Roth

• Annotations
• WMF versus BMP

Lori H Guillory

• Java Help

Lori Janies

• Re: Auto TOC in MS Weird 6.0

Lori L. Janies

• Re: What is "-30-" at the bottom of an article

Lori Lathrop

• Re: Indexing Jokes
• Re: Indexing Question
• Indexing Skills Workshop for Technical Communicators
• Re: Indexing Software for Macintosh Platform
• Re: LaTex and indexes
• Indexing workshop in Australia
• addendum to previous message

Louise Keene

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Lucille Lattanzi

• WORD DOT's & INI's
• WORD LIST ANYONE?

Lynn Gold

• Re: Do you need a degree?
• Re: success with finding jobs
• Re: Dress Code stuff
• Re: Degrees?
• Re: Dress Code/from a TieGuy
• Re: Resume Length (2 pages ok?)
• Re: Need interview advice :)
• Re: Resume Length (2 pages ok?)
• Re: Inappropriate interview....(Long but I'm venting so it's ok)

M. Dannenberg

• Playing Hardball (was: Client Wants to Charge ...)
• Re: Work instructions
• Re: Metaphors to aid description?
• Re: Advice on work-for-hire rates
• Re: Contents at a Glance
• Re: What do you think?
• Re: What do you think?
• Dodgy survey
• Re: Query: Translations & legal issues

MacGyver

• Re: Kinko's

Marc A. Santacroce

• Re: Agencies

Marcel Uljee

• Electronic forms

Margaret Spurgin

• Re: Degree or Not Degree?
• Re: Inappropriate interview....
• Re: Price Range for User Manual

Marie C. Paretti

• Non-standard Manual Sizes
• thanks. . .

Mark Dando

• Re: is A4 used is Asia?
• Re: Bulleted lists... Is there a limit?

Mark Jordan

• Re: FWD: Copyright Issue

Mark L. Levinson

• PostScript viewer for Win95?
• Re: recurrent topics
• Creativity in resumes
• To click on, or just to click?

Mark Prebilic

• Advice on work-for-hire rates
• Update - Advice on work-for-hire rates

Mary Anne Donovan Wentworth

• PUNCTATION AND QUOTATION

Mary Anthony

• Re: Inappropriate interview....
• Re: Inappropriate interview....

Mary Howe

• summary of wordless manual information
• Intranet-based training
• Re: Finding Initial Freelance Contracts

Mary Joan Deutschbein

• Re: Odd Survey explained

Mary McCauley-Stiff

• Java-based help solution - a candidate

Mary S. Hutson

• Re: Dress Code/from a TieGuy

Mary Shaw

• Re: Translating tab text for Windows 95 help file?
• Re: Compare Thee to a Database
• Re: Do you need a degree?
• Re: Non-standard Manual Sizes

Matt Danda

• Courses to take

Matt Ion

• Re: where to find compact disc logo
• Re: where to find compact disc logo
• Re: where to find compact disc logo - thanks
• Re: Printing bids - surprise!
• Re: job angst
• Re: Whether to Jump? Seeking advice!
• Words on words...
• Re: Tricky Possessives

Matthew Flynn

• Re[2]: where to find compact disc logo
• Re[2]: Master's Degree
• Re[2]: Has anyone ever hear of an .shg file?
• Re: Odd survey explained

Matthew J Long

• Microtek Scanners
• Compare Thee to a Database
• Re: Database Analogies
• Rules of thumb in estimating
• Finding Initial Freelance Contracts
• Re: Degree Snobs
• Price Range for User Manual
• Latex and indexes?
• Price Range for User Manual Summary (long)

Matthew Stern

• Re: Use of "your"

Mc Jdub

• Re: Spacing after a period...
• Re: e-mailing docs based on templates
• Re: abbreviations, acronyms, and glossaries
• Re: Degree or Not Degree?
• Re: Degree or Not Degree?
• On the Lighter Side . . .
• Re: Classism (was Degree or Not Degree)
• Re: sans serif fonts
• Re: 7 plus or minus 2
• Re: HTML editor/converter choices
• FW: HTML editor/converter choices

Melanie Palmer

• Degrees/Dress Codes - what...

Melissa Anne Hess

• success with finding jobs
• Re: success with finding jobs
• Interview Questions

Melissa Hinds

• Desktop Publishing programs?
• DTP programs - Thank You

Melissa Hunter-Kilmer

• Why do we wear what we do?
• Degrees and dress codes
• another recurring thread: policing the list

Melonie Holliman

• JOB: Austin, TX
• Job: Austin: HTML Editor
• Color Printing Options
• Job: Contract: Austin: Frame
• Dress Code and Resume
• HW- Tech Writer in Austin

Michael Aimino TechComm LLC

• Consulting Position -- New Jersey
• Re: Skills?

Michael John Little

• A Question for WinWord Gurus
• Re: JavaHelp

Michal Berman (telaviv)

• Footers for Beta documentation

Michele_Berkes

• documentation DOES matter

Mike Collier - SSG

• Re: Re[2]: Spacing after a period...
• Tokenization (Was: RE: Stop It! Was: Spacing after a period...
• Re: Printing bids - surprise!
• Re: Good Intro to Programming book?
• Re: Use the mailto: prefix in your email signatures
• Re: Salaries
• Re: Rules in tables
• Re: TECH. WRITING SURVEY - OPINIONS REQUESTED
• Re: Odd survey explained
• Re: Buzzwords & secret handshakes
• Myths and Facts From SSI
• Re: Myths and Facts From SSI
• Project idea (was: RE: Myths and Facts From SSI)

Mike Ingram

• Converting docs from Word Perfect to Word

Mike Keene

• Re: Do you need a degree?

Mike Norton

• Tool for OS/2 Screen Captures and Help
• Tool for OS/2 Screen Captures and Help - Summary

Miles Jack

• Re: 7 plus or minus 2

Misti Tucker USAET(UTC -04:00)

• Information Mapping
• Re: Inappropriate interview....(Long but I'm venting so it's ok)
• Agencies...??
• Re: Creativity in resumes
• Re: sans serif fonts
• Technical Writer Trade Union
• 4 yrs of writing, and NOW I'm questioning fonts

Mitman, Rikki

• Re: Lynching?

Molis, Debbie

• Re: HELP:Acronym/ Glossary page numbers
• Technical Writer Trade Union

Mollye Barrett

• Region 6 Conference Call for Presentations

Morris, Margaret K

• Percent: use GPO style for Congress

Mysore S Dattatreya

• Running an efficient Online English kit

Nagai, Paul

• Techwr-l Recurring Reduces (plural of redux, no? :)
• Re: Degree or No Degree: Who Cares?
• Re: opinion on international date standards (kinda long)
• Re: 7 plus or minus 2
• Miller's original 7+/-2 article

Nancy Hoft

• What do you think?
• Int'l Case Studies: An Invitation to Participate

Nancy McDonald

• Re: summary of wordless manual information
• Re: Reluctant SMEs (Was Re: Education and Productivity)
• big number problem
• troubleshooting guide
• Re: A4 Paper: used in Japan, Taiwan, etc.

Natalie Griffith

• Where is everybody?

Nicole Cvetkovic

• Tricky Possessives

Nina L. Panzica

• Contractors and Consultants: Want a Link?
• Re: TECHWR-L Rates Survey
• Re: Resume Length (2 pages ok?)
• Re: Use the mailto: prefix in your email signatures
• Re: Summary: Good Intro to Programming Book
• Re: Agencies...??:
• Re: How to get that first TW contract
• Re: Advice needed on accepting that first tech. writing job
• Re: Agencies
• Re: Agencies...??: LONG
• Re: Interview-Update
• Re: Inappropriate interview....(Long but I'm venting so it's ok)
• Re: Interview Questions
• Re: Price Range for User Manual: Me Too
• Re: "book form"
• Re: information needed
• Re: Detailed Resumes?
• Re: Lone Writers' Professional Interest Committee

Nora Merhar

• Degrees of intelligence
• MS word--space hog
• Re: Odd survey explained
• Re: Lynching?

Nyman, Rikki

• Job - Tucson Short-term Contract

P Weinthal

• Job - tech writers - Andover, Mass

P. J. Dranchuk

• A4 Paper: used in Japan, Taiwan

Pamela Shannon

• Senior Tech Writer -- Boston area

Parker, Cassandra M. (EXCH)

• Re: ADMIN: Drop the attacks
• Re: Second Oldest Profession?
• FW: MAGAZINE SEARCH
• Re: Magazine Search

Parks, Beverly

• Re: Research List Source for TechWriters
• Re: To click on, or just to click?

Pat Anderson

• TW Positions - Toronto

Pat Gantt

• New Event Submittal
• One state's requirements for...
• Re: Master's degree: shop shop shop!
• Re: Master's degree
• Re: Courses to take
• HR->HRD->HRIS->Tech. Writing?
• Why Norton?
• What are these codes?
• Re: LAW: (short) enforceability of non-compete agreements
• What is the plural of...
• How does one overcome...
• Re: How does one... email answer
• New products here and on the horizon?
• Employment Alternatives?
• Re: FWD: Job Opportunity Anxiety
• Re: What do you think?
• Re: Technical writer dream
• The Best in the BIZ -> HRD-> Tech.
• Re: What do you think?
• Thanks, Supportive Spices & SOs
• Re: Degree Snobs
• What are "must" haves for Tech. Writers?
• Re: Degree Snobs
• Re: Grow UP and stop knocking those with degrees!!!!
• Re: Resume Length (2 pages ok?)
• Correct me if I am wrong... but
• Re: Thank you
• Re: Good Intro to Programming book?
• Re: What are "must" haves for Tech. Writers?
• Re: What are "must" haves for Tech. Writers?
• Re: Can I say, 'me too!!'
• ? "Technical" = Male ?
• Re: Inappropriate interview....(Long but I'm venting so it's ok)
• Re: Examples of bad technical writing
• Will be posting... the bad...
• Re: Writing for visually impaired readers
• Re: Price Range for User Manual
• Re: font choice reveals political stance (was Re: sans serif fonts)
• Re: Where is everybody?
• Re: Slithery words and eliciting reactions
• Re: Sans serif fonts for visually impaired
• Readability methodology makes sense for Tech. Writers
• Re: Inappropriate interview....(Long but I'm venting so it's ok)
• Re: Inappropriate interview....
• Fonts
• Re: Detailed Resumes?
• Re: Friends at work? (was: Good interview questions)
• Re: How to get that first TW contract
• Re: Bulleted lists... Is there a limit?
• Interviewing Info. site for Tech. Writing
• Re: Buzzwords & secret handshakes
• If you could choose...
• Quoth me correctly - friendly not friends
• Re: Inappropriate interview
• Re: 7 plus or minus 2
• Re: Bulleted lists... Is there a limit?
• Re: Finding Initial Freelance Contracts
• Re: TECH. WRITING SURVEY - OPINIONS REQUESTED
• Re: 7 plus or minus 2
• Re: Buzzwords & secret handshakes
• Re: 7 plus or minus 2
• Re: Odd survey explained
• Re: OOPS! Naw no sweat
• Re: 7 plus or minus 2
• Direct Applicability to Recent Posts
• Atlanta Position
• Re: Offensive symbols and the breadth of our profession
• Re: 7 plus or minus 2
• Research List Source for TechWriters
• Policy on TechWrit-L Netiquette???
• Re: Who writes employment exams?
• Re: To be an Engineer, or not to be...
• Re: thanks. . .
• Re: Who writes employment exams?

Patgmason

• Re: Printing bids - surprise!
• Re: Database Analogies
• Windows 95 is wrecking my lines per page
• Who writes employment exams?

Patricia Bergsma

• Magazines, books
• Magazines, books
• Magazines, books

Patrick Murphy

• Re: Spacing after a period...

Patti Wilson

• Courses to Take

Paul Allen Rice

• Re: A or An?

Paul Branchaud

• Re: Free Speech on the Net
• Re: Tool for OS/2 Screen Captures and Help
• Different PostScript question
• Re: Inappropriate interview....(Long but I'm venting so it's ok)

Paul Harris

• Re: Spacing after a period...

Paul or Bonnie Bobbitt

• User Manuals & Screen Shots
• Re: More on Color Printer
• Re: Courses to Take
• PDX
• ODD SURVEY
• What is conditional text?
• More on "conditional text"

Paul Ryken

• Job Opportunity - Auckland NZL
• Re: opinion on international date standards (kinda long)

Paul Sisler

• Re: Students, STC, and Student Chapter

Paula Foster

• intellectual property survey

Paula Puffer

• Fw: WM HTML 4.0
• Web Folks I need your input

Paula Reynolds

• Query: Translations & legal issues

Peg Rickard

• manual ftemplates

Peggy Daniels

• Re: job angst
• Re: Copyright Issue

Peggy Schillinger

• Re: job angst
• Re: Windows 95 is wrecking my lines per page
• Re: Advice on work-for-hire rates
• Re: Desktop Publishing & Graphics programs
• Re: TECH. WRITING SURVEY - OPINIONS REQUESTED
• Re: Odd survey explained
• Bad Supervisor Survey

Penelope Perkins

• Re: Has anyone ever hear of an .shg file?

Penny Staples

• Re: job angst

Pete Kloppenburg

• Re: minimalist documentation?
• Re: Master's Degree
• Re: Master's Degree
• Re: Mark Twain
• Re: Different PostScript question

Peter Brown

• Re: Spacing after a period...
• Re: What is right
• Re: Dress Code stuff
• Re: opinion on international date standards (kinda long)
• Re: French or Latin? (was Re: sans serif fonts)
• Re: A Survey (of sorts)
• Re: Frame conversion to PDF: losing links

Peter C. Johnson

• Re: Inappropriate interview....(Long but I'm venting so it's ok)
• Re: Certification spreads beyond techwr-l!
• Re: 7 plus or minus 2

Peter G Margaritis

• Re: To ellipse or not to ellipse
• Re: Publishing images stored in databases

Peter Gold

• Re: 7 plus or minus 2

Peter Kelly

• Summary-Downtime
• Thrid-Party manual FrameMaker
• Summary-Third-party Manuals FrameMaker 5
• English
• Summary-English Discussion Lists

Peter Ring, PRC

• Instruction manuals to consumers and unskilled workers
• Re: Examples of bad technical writing
• Lone Writers' Professional Interest Committee
• Re: TECH. WRITING SURVEY - OPINIONS REQUESTED
• Re: Miller's original 7+/-2 article & Number of bullet points

Pfeiffer, Stephanie

• Re: TW-Distance Learning Degree Available?

Phil Atkinson

• Re: Grow UP and stop knocking those with degrees!!!!

Phillip Wilkerson

• Human Relations Success Stories: Tech Writers and Developers
• Technical Writing Position: Naples, FL

Phillip Winn

• Re: Compare Thee to a Database
• Re: Spacing after a period...
• Re: Degree or Not Degree?

polly21annan2sci

• Re: something to read

Priscilla Yonemura

• Re: What are "must" haves for Tech. Writers?
• Re: Agencies...??
• Re: Salaries

R2 Innovations

• Research Question

Raymond Chénier

• Scoping out possible document management solutions
• Instructional design resources question

Raymond Chénier

• Business Plan Financial Appendix Question

Rebecca Carr

• Questions on insurance co. project
• Expert help w/ project for daughter

Rebecca R Chamberlain

• environmental tw
• environmental TW info

rebecca siegel

• UK abbreviation for number
• UK abbreviation for number

Redick Kimberly

• HELP:Acronym/ Glossary page numbers

Renze, Janet L

• $ estimating--Web sites
• Re: Latex and indexes?
• RESULTS: $ estimating--web sites (early)
• RESULTS2: $ estimating--web sites (early)

Richard J. Collins

• Engineer Humor

Richard Rogers

• Re: Has anyone ever hear of an .shg file?
• Docutech printing

Richard Yanowitz

• Re: Printing bids - surprise!
• IRS contracting rules that affect tech writers--possible change
• Re: Information Mapping
• Re: No-compete agreements
• Re: No-compete agreements
• Re: Use of "your"
• Re: Finding Initial Freelance Contracts
• Re: Classism (was Degree or Not Degree)
• Re: ADMIN Advice
• Re: Technical Writer Trade Union
• Re: Technical Writer Trade Union
• Re: Technical Writer Trade Union [re-sent after bouncing]
• Re: Technical Writer Trade Union

richard_schellens

• Re: Price Range for User Manual
• "book form"

Ridder, Fred

• Re: MSWord different spacing on multiple workstations
• Re: Techwr-l Recurring Reduces (plural of redux, no? :)
• Re: A or An?
• Re[2]: Resume length
• Re: If you could choose...

Ritchie Borisenko

• Job in Toronto

RJACOBSE

• Re: Is this a Caution or a Warning

rkennet

• Odd Survey explained

Robert Courtney

• Help in selecting an IP service

Robert Plamondon

• Re: Client Wants to Charge for Use of Equipment
• Re: Clarification on Equip Rental Issue
• Re: Measuring goals/bemchmarking
• Re: Degrees
• Re: Degrees
• Rule-of-Thumb Estimates
• Re: Skills

Robert T. Otoka

• Re: e-mailing docs based on templates
• BOSTON, MA Area - EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
• BOSTON, MA Area - ON-SITE HARDWARE WRITER OPPORTUNITIES

Robin Hilp

• Webring

Roderic Guy Holland

• Ventura to FrameMaker using PSI's MasterHelp

Roger Morency

• Job Opening - Muncie, Indiana

Ron Sering CDS

• Re: The ubiquity of paper
• Systems documents
• Systems documents: Summary

Ross Ortgies

• Framemaker 5.0 training on the West Coast?

Ross Penrod

• Contract work for Tech Writer

Ruth Glaser

• Job Opportunity Anxiety Update

S. Cottrell

• Re: Internet Explorer 4.0
• Re: Inappropriate interview....(Long but I'm venting so it's ok)

S. William Schulz

• Re: Microtek Scanners
• Re: sans serif fonts

S.L. Polsky

• Work instructions
• CatBase
• CatBase Info Needed

Salan Pazurik

• Contents at a Glance
• Contents at a Glance

Sandra Charker

• US and international spellings
• Re: US and international spellings
• Re: What do you think?
• Re: Inappropriate interview....(Long but I'm venting so it's ok)

Sarah

• Environment 97

Sarah Carroll

• Re: Document Customization
• Excellent Localisation Resource

Scott Herron

• Greetings, Writers of Technical
• A new slant on sans serif fonts
• Re: Odd Survey explained

Scott J. Wilson

• Offensive symbols
• Online help support in Java applications

Sella Rush

• Re: Compare Thee to a Database
• Re: job angst
• Re: Database Analogies
• Re: Do you need a degree?
• Re: Contents at a Glance
• Re: Use of "your"
• PNWC and Doug Nathan?
• Schema theory
• Re: Copyright Issue

Sharilyn Mildon

• Re: job angst
• Whether to Jump? Seeking advice!
• Re: e-mailing docs based on templates
• Re: Advice needed on accepting that first tech. writing job

Sharon Harris

• Re: How to get that first TW contract

Sharon Key

• Re: Kinko's

SHAUGLAN

• FWD: Job Opportunity Anxiety

Shlomo Ramon

• Software tools?

Shorter Rankin

• Help for Daughter

Sieczkowski Gina

• Re: thanks. . .

SIG

• Book on Tutorials

Sigrid Schoepel

• Re: Job interview, $24 a year

Simon North

• Re: Framemaker vs. Word 95 - graphics linking

Skip Mendler

• bindings

Slavko Orsolic

• Re: DTP Packages

Smith, Amy

• Shades of gray (was Degree vs. Experience)

Sophia Goan

• Re: Master's Degree
• Re: What do you think?
• Degree Snobs

Stacey Marner

• Re[2]: Spacing after a period...

Stacey Roberts

• JOB: Austin, Texas

Stephen Forrest

• Re: FWD: Students, STC, and Student Chapter--Need Advice
• Re: online documentation
• Re: Free Speech on the Net
• Re: Use of "your"
• Re: Latex and indexes?
• Re: MS word--space hog

Stephen Martin

• Re: The plot thickens ...
• Re: Missed another opportunity to be insecure
• Re: To click on, or just to click?

steve . williams

• Re: Spacing after a period...
• Re: A or An?
• Re: Contents at a Glance

Steve Chalastra

• Re: Spacing after a period...

Steve Sagman

• Need freelance copy and tech editors

Steven Jong

• meeting goals/benchmarking
• Re: 7 plus or minus 2

Steven Warren

• Why am I getting the same message twice every single time
• success with finding jobs
• [no subject]

Stuart Burnfield

• Re: Binding question
• Eliminating Need for Technical Support
• Databases and Pigeonholes
• Re: meeting goals/benchmarking
• Re: Where is everybody?
• Re: Which computer for a contractor?
• Re: 7 plus or minus 2
• Manual sizes
• Docutechs and Colour Inserts

Sue Heim, San Diego

• Re: Do you need a degree?
• Position Open -- San Diego, California
• Re: Salaries
• FW: Where is everybody?

Sunil Gokhale

• Re: Eliminating Need for Technical Support
• Re: Footers for Beta documentation
• Re: A or An?
• Re: Re[2]: Wordless manuals redux <grin>
• Re: is A4 used is Asia?
• Re: Percent
• Re: Metaphors to aid description?
• Dress Code
• Re: opinion on international date standards (kinda long)
• Re: Please focus on the "technical" on this list
• Re: "book form"

Susan Brown

• Re: Lynching?

Susan Cockrell (by way of Susan Cockrell <scockrell -at- highground -dot- com>)

• e-mailing docs based on templates

Susan Sackett-Wilk

• Publishing images stored in databases
• Conditional text and help development

Susan Self

• Re: Latex and indexes?

Susan W. Gallagher

• Re: Compare Thee to a Database
• Re: Question about release notes
• Re: Has anyone ever hear of an .shg file?
• Re: Where is everybody?
• Re: Courses to Take
• Re: What do you think?
• Re: Insecure about browser terminology
• Re: GUI documentation
• Re: Long Summary: Good Interview Questions
• Re: Odd-size Manuals

Sushil Oswal

• To Windows95 and MS Office-95 or 97 Experts
• Indexing Software for Macintosh Platform

Suzanne Lee

• is A4 used is Asia?
• SLC job: junior writer

Suzanne Townsend

• Mark Twain Quote: Nitpick

Suzy Davis

• A4 in Asia

svann

• HelpHikes Pro?

T. Mazza

• Re: Printing bids - surprise!
• (Fwd) Re: Master's Degree
• Success with finding jobs

Tacy Richardson

• Grant Writing

TALKLIST

• Long File Names - Iain Harrison are you out there?

Tamminga, Ernie

• Punctuation Revisionism
• Re: A or An?
• Re: Use of "your"
• Nouning

TE

• Job Opportunity at Tec-Ed

techpubs

• Staff Position Torrance CA
• Staff Position Torrance CA

Ted Heatherington

• Re: indexing jokes?
• Re: Pagemaker page numbering
• Re: ADMIN: Certification

The Tech Writer

• Re: Resume Length (2 pages ok?)

Theresa Marchwinski

• Re: What do you think?

Thespina Hadjimichael

• Can I say, 'me too!!'
• Agencies...??

Thiessen, Christopher(Chris) E

• Re: Interview-Update
• Re: How to get that first TW contract

Thor Kottelin

• Re: Hi-Tech Questionnaire

Tim Altom

• Re: FWD: Students, STC, and Student Chapter--Need Advice
• Re: Compare Thee to a Database
• Re: Screen dumps into online help
• Database Analogies
• Job Posting: Massachusetts
• Sans Serif Fonts
• Job Opening: Graphic Designer, Rushville, IN
• Re: Conditional text and help development

Tim Glasheen

• Re: Degrees?
• Re: Bulleted lists... Is there a limit?
• Re: Overly long bulleted lists?

Tim Merrick

• Re: FrameMaker 5.0 vs. Word '97
• Re: Courses to Take
• Re: Job Opportunity Anxiety
• Re: How does one overcome...
• Re: bindings
• Re: Reuse of text/modular information
• Re: Framemaker 5.0 training on the West Coast?

Tim Ryan

• Re: sans serif fonts

Tim Walker

• On-site contract position: San Jose, CA

TIMMERMAN

• Re: Spell Checkers - Believe it or Not?
• Degree or No Degree: Who Cares?

Tom Herme

• To respondents of my posting: "Word 7 TOC and Index"
• Re: Schema theory
• Please focus on the "technical" on this list

Tom Hoyt

• Re: FWD: Students, STC, and Student Chapter--Need Advice

Tom Johnson

• Rules or Lines
• Flame Trawling

Tracy Boyington

• Re: Client Wants to Charge for Use of Equipment!
• where to find compact disc logo
• Re: where to find compact disc logo - thanks
• Re: Printing bids - surprise!
• Re: Techwr-l Recurring Reduces (plural of redux, no? :)
• Re: Windows 95 is wrecking my lines per page
• Re: Do you need a degree?
• Re: Metaphor abuse
• Re: Degrees?
• Re: Degree Snobs
• Re: Inappropriate interview....(Long but I'm venting so it's ok)
• Re: FWD: Copyright Issue

Trent Clowater

• Re: is A4 used in Asia?

Trevor Keohane

• Document Customization

Unknown

• [no subject]

Victoria Koster Lenhard

• Job Opening in Vienna, Austria

Vidya

• PDF File export

Vikki Shine

• [no subject]
• Is this a Caution or a Warning
• caution or warning
• Caution or Warning

Virginia Day

• Re: Printing bids - surprise!
• Re: job angst
• Re: troubleshooting guide
• Re: Technical writer dream
• Re: non-compete--where've I been?
• Re: What do you think?
• Re: FWD: Copyright Issue
• Re[2]: Price Range for User Manual
• Re[2]: Overly long bulleted lists?

Virginia J. Link

• Error in "What do you think?" (long)
• Inappropriate interview....(Long but I'm

Vivrett, Connie (Hoofddorp)

• e-mailing docs based on templates

Walker, Arlen P

• Re[2]: Reluctant SMEs
• Re[2]: Spacing after a period...
• Re[2]: Spacing after a period...
• Re: Courses to take
• Re[2]: Degrees
• Re: disclosure (was Re: LAW: (long) enforceability of noncom
• Re[2]: Market Research sources
• Re: Dress Code *Results*
• Re: Degree Snobs
• Prime example of misunderstanding (degrees)
• Re: Good Intro to Programming book?
• Re[2]: recurrent topics (was Degree brouhaha)
• Re[2]: FWD: Copyright Issue
• Re[2]: Which computer for a contractor?
• Re: standards

Wally Glassett

• Re: disclosure (was Re: LAW: (long) enforceability of noncompeteagreements)
• Re: ADMIN: Drop the attacks

WandaJane Phillips

• Re: Contents at a Glance

Wayne Douglass

• Re: Punctuation Revisionism
• Re: compare thee to a database
• Re: To ellipse or not to ellipse
• Re: Minimalism
• Re: Software Metrics
• Re: Do you need a degree?
• Re: success with finding jobs
• Re: success with finding jobs
• Re: Re[2]: success with finding jobs
• Re: Re[2]: success with finding jobs
• CatBase
• Re: Do you need a degree?
• Re: Metaphors to aid description?
• Re: Insecure about browser terminology
• Re: musing about degree requirements
• Re: musing about degree requirements
• Re: Second Oldest Profession?
• Re: Second Oldest Profession?
• Re: Making money off this degree/no degree debate
• ADMIN Advice
• Re: Second Oldest Profession?
• Re: Skills
• Re: Inappropriate interview....(Long but I'm venting so it's ok)
• I Shot the Serif
• Re: Creative resumes
• Re: Odd Survey explained
• Re: Non-standard Manual Sizes
• Re: Offensive symbols
• Re: Odd-size Manuals

Weirg

• Spacing after a period...

Wilcox, John (Contractor)

• Re: MSWord different spacing on multiple workstations
• Standard? RE: How many spaces after a period?
• Re: job angst
• Re: Humor: The software development process
• need Visio? (was: experience with Requisite Pro?)
• Re: success with finding jobs

Wilcox, John (WWC, Contractor)

• Re: Where is everybody?
• Re: Different PostScript question
• Re: Templates for manuals
• Re: What is the plural of...
• Re: A Question for WinWord Gurus
• Re: What do you think?
• Re: Skills?
• Re: Second Oldest Profession?
• Re: What are "must" haves for Tech. Writers?
• font choice reveals political stance (was Re: sans serif fonts)
• shorts (was Catching Up)
• Re: Rules in tables
• Re: Creative resumes
• Re: 7 plus or minus 2
• Re: Odd Survey explained
• Re: Publishing images stored in databases

Wiley, Karen P.

• Re: PUNCTATION AND QUOTATION
• information needed

Will Kelly

• Knowledge Transfer

Will Rodina

• Re: A or An?
• Re: A or An?

William Blank

• Re: compare thee to a database
• [no subject]
• Uses of a tie
• My Bonney Lies Over the Ocean

William E Newkirk

• Re: Spacing after a period...
• Re: Free Speech on the Net

William Meisheid

• DC area RoboHELP training (July 29-31)
• Re: Classism (was Degree or Not Degree)

WILLIAM W. GRIFFIN

• Want Technical Trainer - Atlanta $65-75,000
• Want Mark Supp Software- Atlanta $65-75,000

Williams, Diane (contractor)

• Re: job angst
• Scientific vs. Humanistic
• Re: Scientific vs. Humanistic
• Re: Headers & footers - what to put in them?
• Re: Master's Degree
• Re: Percent: use GPO style for Congress
• Re: Master's Degree
• Re: What do you think?
• Re: What do you think?
• Re: Grow UP and stop knocking those with degrees!!!!
• Re: Examples of bad technical writing
• Re: Inappropriate interview....(Long but I'm venting so it's ok)
• Re: Inappropriate interview....(Long but I'm venting so it's ok)
• Re: Spacing after a period...
• Re: Copyright Issue
• Re: Interview-Update
• "Air Force One" supports our craft!
• Re: "Air Force One" supports our craft!
• Re: "Air Force One" supports our craft!

Win Day

• Re: More on "conditional text"
• Lone Writer web page

Wing, Michael J

• Re: job angst
• Re: Happy Fourth of July, American TECHWR-Lers!
• Re: Dress Code/from a TieGuy
• Re: Inappropriate interview....(Long but I'm venting so it's ok)

WRK/dlchute

• Re: Offensive symbols

Yvonne DeGraw

• Pathfinder tech writers?

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