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Re: Proof that content is more important than style
Subject:Re: Proof that content is more important than style From:"Karen L. Zorn" <klzorn -at- zorntech -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sun, 17 Nov 2002 18:55:32 -0700
Here it is Sunday evening, day's chores are completed, so I'll check the
email before starting dinner. And what do I see? There's another d***mned
food fight going on!
FOLKS, WAKE UP!
There is no way on this good Earth that Andrew Plato has read or could read
every manual that the members of this list have authored. No physical way.
So, without empirical proof, solid arguments siting poor content (accurately
noted with the appropriate bilography, please), don't bother to respond to
his baiting techniques.
There is no way you're going to change his mind--it's made up and nothing
you put forth is going to make a difference.
I find it interesting that the "STC Letter to the Editor" thread produced
99, (yep 99!) emails. If you didn't notice the quick slight of hand, the
topic was changed to "STC and Words" which produced 12 emails. Now another
email subject line change and the food fight continues with "Proof that
content is more important than style" which currently has 19 entries (it's
6:30 pm Mountain CST).
Yes, Andrew, content is important, style (layout, design, and whatever other
synomyn you care to argue) in *most* publications should be, and probably to
most everyone here, *is* secondary. But you don't care. The broader brush
you can swing, the better.
Nough said, you've been granted too much of my day.
Karen L. Zorn
Zorn Technologies, Inc.
Mesa, AZ
(Note to List members: I wrote a whole argument as to why I purchase a
certain magazine, but cut it when I realized that it would just get stomped
on and trash talked.)
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