RE: "Button Gravity" and "Warning Gravity"

["nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il" <nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il>]

David writes:
> Then technically, I should never use anything stronger than a caution,
> because I don't document equipment that could injure or kill people.
> However, I -- and some of the other folks in my department -- will
> occasionally use warnings for situations where a wrong move could cause
> serious corruption and/or destruction of data,

In my opinion, there's nothing wrong with
warning on a curve.  That is to say, the
worst kind of damage your product can do 
deserves a warning, lesser damage deserves 
a caution, and an effort-saving tip deserves 
a note.  No one will expect that a caution 
in your tax calculation manual means that 
the reader could be injured by a sharp 
subtraction sign.

Granted, you might worry that having been
accustomed to tax-calculation warnings that 
are not matters of life and death, a person 
might pay insufficient attention to warnings
after closing the tax calculation manual and 
opening the bell tower painting manual.  

But where I work, for what it's worth, the
warnings are on a curve.

Mark L. Levinson
nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il   

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