Re: Beaten by the mob

Subject: Re: Beaten by the mob
From: guy <guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:16:41 -0800


Andrew Plato wrote:

--- John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> wrote:

She might have won your respect, but not mine.

Doesn't matter...you're not working with her...I am.


This is true. So why did you post it?
Andrew Plato

Peope are missing the point of John's posting. It was not IMNSHO
about the manner in which the coder expressed herself; it was about
the recognition that one can turn to the documentation team and
learn how to properly USE the documentation to address the problem.

If John's report had said

Well...she was thrilled! She returned to her cube and 5 minutes
later, a message posted a message to about a dozen different
parties telling them it was not her code, but the datafeed,
as documented at ...

we would not have focussed on (his paraphrase of) her self-expression.

--Guy K. Haas gkhaas -at- usa -dot- net guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com etc.
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