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Robin....

Errrrr.... WRONG.   Barb Mallut would have added "Grinning" ducking &
running," to indicate that she wasn't being serious.   And the reason
she wouldn't be serious in discussing the current topic is 'cause she
figures there's always the DELETE key available for her to use, thus
giving her full control over the email she reads.

And HEY... it's  sure a lot easier and faster to control what one
reads with a quick tap on one's delete key than to try to monitor and
control what others have to say by laying down one's own personal
guidelines as examples of correctness.

Of course, this is easy for ME to say because I only post THEE most
interesting items, al correcttly editzd annd spel checkd.(G, D & R)

Barb Mallut
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-----Original Message-----
From: Parkinson's Disease Foundation <[log in to unmask]>
To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN
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Date: Thursday, December 17, 1998 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: PURPOSE OF THE SURVEY


>charlie, friends and others:
>
>i have just two things to say about the use of our list:
>
>1. i am a TREMENDOUS fan of this list (and of its author, janet
paterson).  as
>I have told many people (incIuding my own board of directors),
keeping up with
>it is simply indispensible to the effective conduct of my job.
>
>2. i believe that just two things -- call them, the "amy-vanderbilt
rules of
>internet etiquette," or "internetiquette" -- stand between it and
perfection,
>namely:
>
>one: we should agree to post only those items that we think would be
of
>INTEREST to fairly large numbers of people OR which require the
ATTENTION of
>large groups of people (e.g. media alerts, washington comments,
requests for
>help on a PD topic)
>
>two: when someone wants to respond personally to someone else's
posting (e.g.,
>"great idea, max!"), why not use one-to-one e-mail rather than the
list?
>
>simple observance of these two rules would cut our daily roster of
postings in
>half.
>
>respectfully submitted (and, as barb mallut might say, "ducking and
running:)
>
>robin elliott, exec. dir., parkinson's disease foundation
>