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Subject:Re: Communication w/ SME From:Kat Nagel <KatNagel -at- AOL -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 9 Mar 1995 09:10:44 -0500
Lori Lathrop wrote about her problem (getting the developer to answer her
questions):
>I made my questions as conspicuous as possible; they are
>sprinkled throughout the text in thick-lined boxes and the words
>"DEVELOPMENT NOTES" centered on the first line of each box
Calling a question by some *other* name hardly qualifies as 'conspicuous.'
Perhaps if you had highlighted the word QUESTION somewhere---or used a large
question mark or emphatic arrow as a side-head---the guy would have paid more
attention to them. After all, DEVELOPMENT NOTES sounds less urgent than
QUESTION! or ????.
@Kat
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