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Subject:Re: -No Subject- From:Herman Holtz <holtz -at- CLARK -dot- NET> Date:Wed, 15 Mar 1995 16:10:08 -0500
On Wed, 15 Mar 1995, Barry West wrote:
> As a Techwriter who started his career writing to Mil Specs, "This Page
> Intentionally Left Blank" was a device we used because the spec told us to
> (along with restricted verb lists). This is a phenom created years ago my
From my own onetime career as a tech writer, working primarily to mil
specs, I knew of at least two good reasons for blank pages and notces
posted on them: In some cases, there were illustrations, not yet
available, that would eventually occupy those pages. "Draft" editions
could run to fairly large print runs. Then there were manuals that were
well above top secret, and would be circulated without the most senstive
data--sometimes codes--That would be added by the customer (Natonal
Security Agency, for example.) Why that should be a practice in
commercial manuals is a mystery to me.
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