[The following says, in brief, "Yes!" and "No!" I think the act can be
done helpfully and painlessly by sending out a very brief message each month
reminding us that all the information one might need is on the WWW
pages to which the URL in the masthead of Humanist points. I will make
sure that these pages are complete. Any problems with this? --WM]
[1] From: Jann Tracy <enp01jt@gold.ac.uk> (17)
Subject: Re: 9.200 monthly greeting?
[2] From: Germaine Warkentin <warkent@epas.utoronto.ca> (6)
Subject: Re: 9.200 monthly greeting?
[3] From: Paul Stanwood <stap@unixg.ubc.ca> (18)
Subject: Re: 9.200 monthly greeting?
[4] From: "Patrick W. Conner" <U47C2@wvnvm.wvnet.edu> (11)
Subject: Re: 9.200 monthly greeting?
[5] From: "S.A.Rae (Simon Rae)" <S.A.Rae@open.ac.uk> (18)
Subject: RE: 9.200 monthly greeting?
[6] From: "Galen K. Pletcher" <pletchgk@potsdam.edu> (25)
Subject: Re: 9.200 monthly greeting?
[7] From: Andrew Burday <andy@dep.philo.mcgill.ca> (9)
Subject: Re: 9.200 monthly greeting?
[8] From: Maris Roze <maris@devry.com> (1)
Subject: Re: 9.200 monthly greeting?
[9] From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" (13)
<U35395%UICVM.BitNet@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
Subject: Re: 9.200 monthly greeting?
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Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 14:36:30 +0100 (BST)
From: Jann Tracy <enp01jt@gold.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 9.200 monthly greeting?
On Sun, 1 Oct 1995, Humanist wrote:
>
> [1] From: Willard McCarty<mccarty@phoenix.princeton.edu> (93)
> Subject: List owner's monthly greeting >
> The following is a copy of the monthly greeting sent out to
all members of DARWIN-L by its editor. Would you recommend that I adopt
this practice on Humanist? WM >
>
No! No! Please NOT. I hate being told what I already know and to have it
come at me monthly...Jann (already suffering from information overload)
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Jann Tracy enp01jt@gold.ac.uk
English Department
Goldsmiths College "How do you know I'm mad?"
University of London said Alice.
London "You must be," said the Cat,
SE14 6NW "or you wouldn't come here."
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Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 20:42:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Germaine Warkentin <warkent@epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Re: 9.200 monthly greeting?
Willard, it's a good idea to send out that message occasionally (Peter
Graham of ExLibris does it about once every quarter) but once a month
is too much!
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Germaine Warkentin warkent@epas.utoronto.ca
English, Victoria College, University of Toronto
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Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 17:53:54 -0700
From: Paul Stanwood <stap@unixg.ubc.ca>
Subject: Re: 9.200 monthly greeting?
Dear Willard McCarty,
Yes, an excellent idea.
PGStanwood
English, UBC
Vancouver
<stap@unixg.ubc.ca>
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Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 21:59:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Patrick W. Conner" <U47C2@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>
Subject: Re: 9.200 monthly greeting?
I don't think we need that, Willard. You can make such a file, keep it
in the filelist, and forward it to new members and to those who seem to
need to be told this information, but this is sort of like the "how to open
the package" instructions on the Cracker Jacks box.
--pat
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Date: 2 Oct 1995 09:07:55 +0000
From: "S.A.Rae (Simon Rae)" <S.A.Rae@open.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: 9.200 monthly greeting?
Willard,
you ask:
> The following is a copy of the monthly greeting sent out to all members
> of DARWIN-L by its editor. Would you recommend that I adopt this practice
> on Humanist?
>>From: DARWIN@iris.uncg.edu
>
>Greetings to all Darwin-L subscribers. On the first of every month I send
> etc
yes please ... I remember being impressed by this 'service' from DARWIN-L when
I had occasion to join it for a couple of months last year.
What would prove to be the 'cherry on top of the cake' would be a short review
of the topics that had been discussed during the previous month ... that would
be REALLY nice (although I do realize that it would be work 'above and beyond'
the normal automatic editorship task that I presume would send out a standard
monthly greeting!).
Cheers
Simon
The Open University, UK
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Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 08:20:32 -0400
From: "Galen K. Pletcher" <pletchgk@potsdam.edu>
Subject: Re: 9.200 monthly greeting?
Willard, thanks for the opportunity to respond about this. I have
archived the original information you sent about the list, but many may not
have done so, even archived records are sometimes lost, and, in addition to
needing the information themselves, subscribers may wish to have a succinct
description for those who ask about Humanist. Hence, I think sending a
monthly greeting of the kind you showed us might be a good idea.
Galen K. Pletcher, Dean
School of Arts and Sciences
SUNY Potsdam
44 Pierrepont Avenue
Potsdam, NY 13676-2294
(315)267-2231
FAX (315)267-3140
E-mail: pletchgk@potsdam.edu
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Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 10:31:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andrew Burday <andy@dep.philo.mcgill.ca>
Subject: Re: 9.200 monthly greeting?
Hi.
Except on lists with a lot of ignorant beginners, monthly messages of the
kind that Bob O'Hara sends to Darwin-L seem to me otiose. Not a big
problem, but not really necessary. I think the time could be better
spent on things like well-maintained, easily accessible archives.
Best,
Andrew Burday
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andy@philo.mcgill.ca http://www.philo.mcgill.ca/
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Date: Mon, 02 Oct 1995 10:24:47 -0500
From: Maris Roze <maris@devry.com>
Subject: Re: 9.200 monthly greeting?
In a word, yes!
Cheers, Maris Roze
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Date: Mon, 02 Oct 95 13:36:55 CDT
From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <U35395%UICVM.BitNet@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
Subject: Re: 9.200 monthly greeting?
Only if you cut it to 30 lines -- 40 max. That will mean much of it is
move to a file on the server and replaced with instructions on how to
find the file on the server.
-CMSMcQ