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Subject:Re: You, you, you . . . From:Richard Mateosian <srm -at- C2 -dot- ORG> Date:Wed, 13 Dec 1995 00:13:42 -0800
>What I perceive in Mr. Mateosian's comment is confusion about who the
>audience is.
>If I'm writing a manual for system administrators, then the system
>administrator is my audience, NOT some other users. I would never
>refer to these other users in the second person in a system
>administrator's manual!
