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From: rfarris@serene.CTS.COM (Rick Farris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Why write about something you're ignorant about?
Summary: Because non-ignorant people won't work for writers wages.
Message-ID: <253@serene.CTS.COM>
Date: 29 Sep 88 06:31:38 GMT
References: <255@utoday.UUCP> <910@shark.lamont.Columbia.edu>
Reply-To: rfarris@serene.cts.com (Rick Farris)
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In article <910@shark.lamont.Columbia.edu> dale@lamont.Columbia.edu (dale chayes) writes:
>I suggest that you ask your editor to assign someone who knows the subject.
>-- 
>Dale Chayes Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University

It's a sad but true fact of life that people that *do* know all about X, or
most any other highly technical subject, are not willing to work for writers
wages.

And they're usually poor writers.

Rick Farris
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