It was never anything to do with the STC - it was done entirely by Colin acting in his capacity as a technical communicator. I was merely identifying him. I also did not see it as a victory - more a clarification. Jill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Silcock" <howard.silcock@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 4:44 PM Subject: atw: Re: Security clearance (and ellipses!) I was interested to read Jill Nicholson's post about the prohibition on recruitment agencies specifying that a security clearance is a condition of appointment for a position. This seems to be one of those cases where the 'victory' for the STC must surely be pyrrhic. If a company needs someone with a clearance but can't wait months to put someone through the vetting process, what will they do? Presumably find some way around the regulation, if they really aren't allowed to include the clearance as a requirement. So that means the job ads will contain vaguer and vaguer requirements - or maybe even more spurious requirements - and will waste the applicants' time all the more. I don't want to appear too cynical - if someone can see it from a more positive viewpoint, I'm more than willing to look from there too! Howard PS I've also just been catching up on a backlog of emails to this list and can't resist adding a pedantic comment to the thread about ellipses, as people seem to be confused about the spelling and usage of this term (or was 'an elipses' just a typo?) - quite apart from the undoubtedly important question of how they're used on menus. The three dots are called AN ELLIPSIS and the plural is ELLIPSES (spelt the same as geometrical ellipses, but pronoounced 'ellipSEEZ'). Actually, as far as I can see, this usage comes from printing and must ultimately be derived from the grammatical term used to describe an omission of a word or words that can be inferred from the context - e.g. saying 'I don't really like my boss - I just pretend to' (instead of 'I just pretend to *like him*'). ============================================ Howard L. Silcock Advanced Computation & Modelling Program Mathematical Sciences Institute Australian National University howard.silcock@xxxxxxxxxx Ph 6125 0023 Fax 6125 5549 ============================================ ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ************************************************** ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************