Re: Change bars considered harmful (Was: Re: The worst doc problem ever?)

[Janice Gelb <Janice -dot- Gelb -at- Sun -dot- COM>]

Peter Neilson wrote:
> I've tried to be careful about handing out review copies with change 
> bars or their equivalents. If the SME who is new to the project gets a 
> review copy with change bars, whaddya bet he'll only look at the changed 
> material and ignore the errors in the rest of the document?
> 

I would only recommend change bars for a second round of reviewing
by the same reviewers, so they don't waste time looking at content
that they've already presumably examined.

-- Janice

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