Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:42:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: getting it right

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, ronkean at juno.com wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:20:40 -0400 (EDT) "Keith F. Lynch"
> <kfl at KeithLynch.net> writes:
>
[snip]
> ...
>> We're not supposed to contact any of the people involved.
>>
>> The person in question is dead, but for some reason does not show
>> up
>> under any of these names in the online Social Security Death Index.
>>
>> What would you do?
>>
>
> You could pick one of the spellings, or have your manager pick one, and
> put "(sp?)" after it to indicate the spelling is in doubt.  You could ask
> management to contact the customer and ask how they think it should be
> spelled.

I suspect Keith was offering alternative problems: we're not supposed to
contact any of the people involved [because, e.g., we don't want to tip
them off we're working on a story], _or_ they're dead and can't be
contacted, etc.

-- Dick Eney