Re: The technologically challenged (was - Re: Tech writers still necessary, but performing poorly)

Subject: Re: The technologically challenged (was - Re: Tech writers still necessary, but performing poorly)
From: Jan Cohen <najnehoc -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: John Garison <john -at- garisons -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:47:34 -0700 (PDT)

I know what you mean, John. Though I've worked for some pretty large companies in the past, I've never really had the pleasure of dealing with too much legalese in the actual meat of the documentation I wrote. For the most part, I was always able to eschew, evade, and/or eradicate most of the parties of the third parts stuff from the conceptual and procedural portions of my content. Still, there were a few exceptions that I can think of, but they were usually driven by whatever flavor of standards compliance was in vogue at the time, and (thankfully) not so much some company's resident aardvark.

jan cohen

John Garison <john -at- garisons -dot- com> wrote in part:
The bottom line is that companies figure out that they need to include
every inconceivable warning so as not to be liable for some idiot's
idiocy, they want to offend no one, and don't care about informing
anyone because by the time the consumer reads the flippin' manual, the
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