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Subject:Re: Format for receiving document reviews From:Barry Kieffer <barry -dot- kieffer -at- EXGATE -dot- TEK -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 19 Jun 1998 13:56:44 -0700
Jane Bergen wrote:
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> Some reviewers are lousy. They only flip through the document and mark
> the most bizarre things (misspellings that aren't, like "loose" vs.
> "lose"....engineers always "loose" things!) and yet won't even comment
> about major gum-ups like wrong screen shots or whole dialogs missing.
>
>
I just had to relate a recent experience...
I sent around a review copy of a performance verification technical
reference manual. The SME in charge of the hardware side circled the
specification tables in red and wrote in the margin:
"Are you sure these specifications are correct?"
I was flabbergasted!
Did this SME think I had the ability to make up specifications?
Maybe some SME's do not understand what a "review" is.
