Milan Davidovic wrote: >On 1/10/07, Beth Agnew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Why are documentation groups >>consistently treated as afterthoughts in so many organizations? >> >> > >Because they allow themselves to be? > > >
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