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Subject:Re: Need an attractive name From:Steve Fouts <sfouts -at- ELLISON -dot- SC -dot- TI -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 22 Jul 1994 10:00:25 CDT
Glen Accardo <glen -at- SOFTINT -dot- COM> writes
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|} Our release notes contain things about installation,
|} sometimes to the point where the release notes replace the instructions
|} in the manual completely. As long as the front page of the release
|} notes makes it somewhat obvious that installation instructions are
|} included, people should be able to figure it out and do the right thing.
Should be able to. Unfortunately for us, our hotline found out that
``Release Notes'' spells ``Roundfile Me'' to many of our customers,
and that we needed to call it something different on the front cover
to let people know that this *isn't* the usual list of bug fixes that
nobody really reads anyway.
Hopefully, the name changed enough to change the document from a tosser
to a keeper. Not enough hotline data to know if it worked yet, YMMV.
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