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Subject:RE: Reading the manual as a last report From:"Anameier, Christine A - Eagan, MN - Contractor" <christine -dot- a -dot- anameier -at- usps -dot- gov> To:<arroxaneullman -at- aol -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:31:29 -0600
Arroxane wrote:
> I believe that 'somebody' was me. . . .
There actually was a different post by somebody else that cited a
study... I remember it mentioned asking someone in the next cube or next
office, then turning to a company's internal tech support, then trying
external vendor tech support, and then finally reaching for the manual.
I appreciate your repost, though. You make a very good point about how
users tend to go for the fastest source of information.
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