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Subject:Re: STC Letter to the Editor From:SteveFJong -at- aol -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sun, 3 Nov 2002 18:12:30 EST
No comment, Andrew, that three of your four "reforms" are irrelevant"?
>> [An] STC award, in my mind, does not make a person an accomplished
>> communicator. It may make them an accomplished designer
>> or desktop publisher - not a writer ... In most "writing" contests,
>> if you merely dressed up somebody else's work, you
>> would be promptly disqualified.
That's because, in your mind, you assume that writers only format, not write.
I wish you would not believe so strongly your own marketing hype; it's rather
insulting to the rest of us.
As for the competitions being "a sham," you set an unreasonable standard. I
think you missed my point that companies routinely release products without
getting user feedback. To do the kind of analysis I alluded to in my previous
reply--which assesses not just the documentation and its accuracy, but also
the product--would require access to the product (and, by your suggestion
actual end users.) That service would be extremely valuable to companies,
because it would be so rare.
(There's a business plan in there, if you care to go for it.)
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