Re: Handling List Requests (was Case Study)

[Tom Murrell <trmurrell -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

--- Dick Margulis  <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net> wrote:
> 
> Tom Murrell <trmurrell -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> >
> >FWIW, I think it is appropriate to kindly respond to the poster
> >off-list, if one chooses to invest the time, to counsel the poster
> >to better phrase such requests. Think of it as a teaching
> >opportunity.
> 
> I have taken that approach a number of times, and I will continue to
> do so. I would caution folks, though, that you should be wearing your
> flameproof Dr. Dentons when you attempt this. There are people out
> there who do not take kindly to off-list suggestions about the
> wording of their requests to the list, no matter how diplomatically
> you think you are phrasing those suggestions.

Wise words of caution, Dick. And anyone who is that ungracious I would
simply refuse to ever correspond with again. I may be a nice guy, but
there are limits to my niceness.

=====
Tom Murrell
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http://home.columbus.rr.com/murrell/index.html Last Updated 05/26/2003
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