Re: You, you, you . . .

Subject: Re: You, you, you . . .
From: Richard Mateosian <srm -at- C2 -dot- ORG>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 00:13:42 -0800

>What I perceive in Mr. Mateosian's comment is confusion about who the
>audience is.

>If I'm writing a manual for system administrators, then the system
>administrator is my audience, NOT some other users. I would never
>refer to these other users in the second person in a system
>administrator's manual!


Duh?! Isn't that what I just said? ...RM


Richard Mateosian http://www.c2.org/~srm/ President, Berkeley STC
Freelance Technical Writer srm -at- c2 -dot- org Review Editor, IEEE Micro


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