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Subject: Re: [ADAMS-L] Private mail to maillists
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 16:14:14 -0800

I just click on delete if I'm not interested ...and I too have learned a
lot from other people "talking" to each other on the list. I think we
would miss a lot if people didn't relpy to the list. AND, I have gotten
letters from people just noticing my name...good exposure.

Just my thoughts
Wilma Fleming Haynes

>
> Helen C. Leigh wrote:
> >
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > In a message dated 2/3/99 10:26:09 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> > > writes:
> > >
> > > << Some of us are receiving 400 plus e-mails daily. Roughly half of them
> > > should
> > > be private mail between the sender and the receiver.
> > > Example: 1. Request for lookups.
> > > 2. Result of lookups.
> > > 3. Thanks for making lookups. >>
> > >
> > > Good advice Gordon,
> > >
> > > I agree unless the "Results of lookups" are items that have never been posted
> > > to the list before and might benefit someone else in their research.
> > >
> >
> > Gordon and Slater:
> >
> > I like to read the look-up responses, also. Sometimes there's a wealth
> > of information in a message to someone else. That is the purpose of a
> > "mailing list," isn't it?
> >
> > I do agree, tho', that some discretion should be used.
> >
> > Helen

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