Re: Poll: Is technical writing a sellout or fallback career?

["Bill Swallow" <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>]

> Here's an ironic twist to the conspiracy theory that the writer of the
> question wrote the question in a way to start a discussion.  A web search of
> the question will point to this list and techwr-l tends to get the higher
> search rankings, so its results appear first and will be ahead of the page
> with the poll.  If the poll question was written to draw traffic, then the
> discussion may have a less than desirable effect for driving traffic.

Did you read the actual poll? It was a discussion troll.
Hey, I'm a poet, and I don't even know it! ;-)

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