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Subject:Re: Two Minutes Hate From:"Susan Hogarth" <hogarth -at- gmail -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 23 May 2007 09:25:41 -0400
On 5/23/07, Martinek, Carla <CMartinek -at- zebra -dot- com> wrote:
> ...
> It's a paradigm shift for many people, and we went through it here. Send
> them PDF copies only - NEVER give them paper copies.
I left out that this is a proposal - if they say 'paper' (and they
do), we head to the woods with an axe.
I have a nightmare where the souls of trees I've murdered meet me at
my death and laugh hideously.
> ...
> Encourage the SMEs to edit online, ...
Oh, the SMEs do - they're fine. It's the (potential) clients who have
this silly requirement.
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