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From: fmc@pyuxqq.UUCP
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Subject: Re: To Read or Not to Read.
Message-ID: <589@pyuxqq.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 17:25:40 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 30 17:25:40 1984
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>>  Why are there authors of technical documents trying to become
>>  the next Shakespeare?
>>  
>>  I've got a document in front of me that's about 200 pages long.
>>  Everything that was said in that document could have been said
>>  in 20 pages with absolutely no meaning or clarity lost.  The 
>>  technical content would have remained the same.  I needed about

I heartily agree that VERBOSITY is a current plague on mankind.
How I would love to find a politician who would give a simple
"yes" or "no" to questions that can be answered that way.