Why did they publish 'blank' pages

From: Hans B Pufal <hansp_at_aconit.org>
Date: Mon Feb 17 00:00:00 2003

Zane H. Healy wrote:
>>Can anybody shed some light on the origin and use of the term "This space
>>intenionally left blank"?
>
>
> It's so you know that the page isn't blank as the result of a printing
> error. The perfect example is one of my Borland Prolog manuals. It has a
> page that was Unintentionally left blank!

Indeed, and as I sometimes take pains to point out, the spaces left
"INTENTIONALLY BLANK" are not blank at all. My preferred notation which
IIRC I first saw in an ICL manual is : "This page intentionally contains
no information" or words to that effect.

   -- hbp
Received on Mon Feb 17 2003 - 00:00:00 GMT