Indexing Jokes

Subject: Indexing Jokes
From: Daniel Wise <dewise -at- IX -dot- NETCOM -dot- COM>
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 19:53:41 -0500

Colleagues,

This thread seems to have popped up again, or maybe I saw it previously in
CE-L. Anyway, here is what I think about jokes in indexes.

If you want me to write you off as being hopelessly unprofessional and not
worthy of consideration for future contracts, take the time to plug a cute
little joke into an index you do for me.

IMHO, an index is supposed to be a helpful tool for the document user.
Putting endless-loop jokes in the index is bound to irritate at least some
of the readers, making them less likely to purchase another product from the
producer. If you sabotage the company you contract to, you are biting the
hand that feeds you.

So endeth the sermon for today.

Dan Wise
dewise -at- ix -dot- netcom -dot- com

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