Re: YOU are responsible, even when YOU are not to blame

[SteveFJong -at- aol -dot- com]

On Mon, 7 Apr 2003 10:02:24 -0700 (PDT), Andrew Plato 
<gilliankitty -at- yahoo -dot- com> hectored Jan:

>> Jan (et al) you need to get the following concepts straight: 
>>  
>> 1. Free of blame: when a problem happens, it isn't your fault. 
>> 
>> 2. Free of responsibility: you are not responsible for the work, its 
quality,
>> and its production. 
>> 
>> Blame is not synonymous with responsibility ... Many people here are 
consistently confusing
>> the meanings of blame and responsibility.  

I agree with the distinction, but who can blame us if we feel confused? 
Andrew started this discussion four days earlier with the following bomb:

>> Inaccuracies are 100% the direct FAULT of the author(s) and editors. And 
99.9%
>> of the time its because those writers and editors do not understand the
>> technology they are documenting. [emphasis mine--sfj]

So Andrew is now erecting and distorting his own strawmen. I say we leave him 
to it and move on to other topics 8^)

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