How many warnings are too many (was "Button Gravity" and "Warning Gravity")

Subject: How many warnings are too many (was "Button Gravity" and "Warning Gravity")
From: "Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:20:55 -0600

From: "nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il" <nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il>
Subject: RE: "Button Gravity" and "Warning Gravity"
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com

[snip]

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.

[snip]

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This raises another question. At what point do cautions and warnings
become counterproductive because people start dismissing them?

BTW, I believe we have defined a paragraph style for "DANGER" but I also
believe we have never used it.
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