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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 14:20:00 MST
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- From: "JAMES I. EBERT" <EBERT@UNMB.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Mail vs Posting
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- I'd like to second (third or fourth, by now) Duane Marble's suggestion
- that requests for the spatiotemporal bibliography, or anything else, be sent
- directly to individual e-mail addresses rather than just "answered" back
- to the list as a whole. The latter is inappropriate use of very valuable
- resources, as well as everyone's time and account billings.
-
- I would like to take this opportunity to suggest, also in the interests of
- saving all of our time, that the "subject" lines of messages to the general
- list be very carefully composed. Instead of just everyone saying "spatio-
- temporal bibliography" when they are asking for a copy, they might want to
- put "spatiotemporal bibliography: copy request." Or, if you're asking
- about whether anyone has any knowledge of sightings of yetis, give us a
- subject line that says "Yeti sightings?" rather than without the question
- mark! Then we can all just delete that message from our directory, rather
- than reading it, unless we have yeti sightings of our own to report.
-
- So -- _does_ anyone have any yeti sightings to report?
-