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- From: sasjcs@canoe.unx.sas.com (Joan Stout)
- Subject: Re: Indexing (was: *** Why is rewriting bad?)
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:49:59 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.181754.9854@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca>, marcy@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca (Marcy Thompson) writes:
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- |> >I can't help thinking that indexing by hand should be banned under the
- |> >Geneva Convention. :-)
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- |> No argument here. I think it also contravenes the constitutional ban on
- |> cruel and unusual punishment if you happen to be in the US. :-)
- |>
- |> Marcy
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- |> --
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- |> Marcy Thompson
- |> SoftQuad (West)
- |> marcy@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca (preferred) or marcy@sq.com
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- Hey! Some of us *like* indexing and some of us do it for a living.
- (In my case, only *part* of my living.) Some of us even like it
- enough to do most of it by hand. I have indexing software to take
- care of the real drudgery, but a professional indexer knows that
- computers can't index.
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- Joan
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