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Subject:Re: FW: Humor vs. Tech Pubs From:Scott Miller <smiller -at- CORP -dot- PORTAL -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 16 Jun 1998 13:32:03 -0700
"What kind of a sicko wrote this?" is what I ask myself when reading
Unix docs. I mean, really: "Kill the children." Tchah!
Anyway, after reading this thread, I'm ready to reverse my opinion. All
this dour talk. Blah. Technical documentation needs more humor, I think.
Or maybe just technical writers do. Whatever. The best networking
dictionary I saw had a bunch of cartoons, and it helped. I mean,
networking docs are suicide bait. Why not counteract the pain every once
in a while?
- Scott Miller
smiller -at- portal -dot- com
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> I know people who would have stopped reading a
> publication immediately, perhaps even calling the vendor to ask "what
> kind of sicko wrote this?" if they were presented with such an
> example.
> Is that the best way to get the point across?
>
