From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: getting it right
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 18:29:28 -0400

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From: "dicconf" <dicconf at radix.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 1:11 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: getting it right

>
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Ted White wrote:
>
> [after Dick Eney wrote:]
> >>
> >> Then Keith's problem doesn't make sense.  There would be no reason not
to
> >> contact one or more of the people involved to clear up the question.
> >
> > It's company policy that proofer/editors (and transcribers) do not
contact
> > any of the parties; when a serious question or problem comes up, this
is
> > handled by Production.
>
> But Keith didn't say that he, personally, couldn't contact the parties,
> but that they couldn't be contacted.  Going through Production (or
> whatever Official Channels a particular organization uses) would still be
> "contacting them".
>
> Of course, Production may have decided that it wasn't important enough...

I don't think Keith asked Production, and I think you're parsing what he
said too closely.

I imagine the rule was originally instituted to forestall a chatty
transcriber or proofer who might otherwise call up one of the attorneys to
gossip with him or her about the case in hand.  Certainly there have been
occasions when I wanted to congratulate or commiserate with one of the
parties in a deposition I was working on.  And the attorneys' phone numbers
*are* given on the "Appearances" page (page 2) of every deposition....

--Ted White