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Subject:Re: HELP From:Loren Castro <lfc -at- SOL -dot- CHINALAKE -dot- NAVY -dot- MIL> Date:Wed, 9 Aug 1995 11:59:11 -0700
Pat Madea provides a warning:
> The hidden danger is missing a small hole or leaving some verbiage in
> a large document that I used merely as a textual placeholder. This
> method for me has come close to producing some embarrassing passages
> in my documents. In one document, I just typed "yabba dabba doo for
> now...." and other nonsense as a placeholder for information that
> needed to be provided to me by a subject matter expert (SME). It was
> overlooked until just before press time when it was brought to my
> attention. Whoops!
Sure. I couldn't possibly come up with enough original or witty placeholders
for my documents, so I just use "TBD." But (he says knowingly) I search for
TBDs before delivering.
