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Subject:Re: Irony in responses to Fabien Vais' question! From:Beth Agnew <bagnew -at- INSYSTEMS -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 14 Aug 1997 17:30:27 -0400
Geoff Hart pointed out:
>FYI, Fabien lives just up the road from me in Montreal, the
>"other" heart of French Canada, and is intimately familiar
>with most of the language resources that people have
>proposed.
Well, I sure feel stupid. I can tell Geoff's in Montreal (by the
@MTL.FERIC.CA) but I didn't have a clue where Fabien was. It might have
been nice to know what resources had been considered and exhausted -- it
would have saved me some time because I wouldn't even have bothered
replying.
It prompted me to look at my own location information and realize that
unless I specifically mention it, no one could know where I am either. Just
shows to go ya, never assume anything. And when we're too close to the
information, we often don't see what's missing.
There's a lesson in that somewhere.
--Beth
Beth Agnew
Senior Technical Writer, InSystems Technologies Inc.
Markham, Ontario, Canada mailto:bagnew -at- insystems -dot- com Tel: (905) 513-1400 ext. 280
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