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RE: YOU are responsible, even when YOU are not to blame
Subject:RE: YOU are responsible, even when YOU are not to blame From:John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 9 Apr 2003 13:36:22 -0400
Jan...not to belabor the point, but what does any of this matter?
To know error is to fix error.
No blame, just fix
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From: Jan Henning [mailto:henning -at- r-l -dot- de]
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 1:26 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: YOU are responsible, even when YOU are not to blame
> So there is a error after the docs are done. If you wrote the docs,
> you're
> still responsible for fixing it.
Yes, of course, if the document is my job. However, I am not resposible
for the introduction of the error (or the prevention thereof). And if
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