Reviewers who don't review

Steven Jong SteveFJong at comcast.net
Wed Aug 2 07:38:25 MDT 2006


Tom Green mentioned a bizarre statement intended to see which  
reviewers were paying attention. I once documented a pen-based  
interface, and included in the middle of one procedure the statement  
"Press hard; you are making three copies." The QA reviewer caught it 8^)

However, I can't recommend the practice, precisely for fear of  
forgetting about the joke. Once upon a time a Honeywell technical  
manual went to print with one error message that counseled to "call  
Mr. Crebo." That joke the writer forgot about...



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