Dear Lis-linkers,
Enough already! Please let's call time on this before the techies and the
librarians spill blood on the carpet. The point seems to have been well and
truly made, and hey, Jiscmail may even be able to come up with a solution!
In the meantime, let harmony and peace breakout amongst our hard-working
colleagues across nations.
I can only commend the patience of those that have bitten their lip and not
hit the 'reply to all button'
Gillian Rutherford
Learning Resource Centre Manager
North Tyneside College
0191 229 5303
-----Original Message-----
From: Gill Bate [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 20 May 2003 11:31
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Autoreply - re "RTFM"
Sarah Currier wrote 'These are not just symptoms of over-stressed or
impatient techie support people, but just overworked people like myself
dealing continually with
other overworked people who never read to the bottom of the email. Comes up
particularly when one is organising a meeting or workshop, and diligently
sends out all the necessary info in good time, only to be deluged two days
before the meeting by terse emails saying "But WHERE is the meeting? And how
do I get there?" '
Would anyone like to guess how many of these are from people who
unsubscribed for the one day when the vital piece of information was sent
out? This probably causes more inconvenience all round than receiving
autoreplies which can easily be deleted.
Gill Bate
Library Supply Officer
Information Services Management
The British Council
Bridgewater House
58 Whitworth Street
Manchester M1 6BB
Telephone +44 (0)161 957 7187
Fax +44 (0)161 957 7168
E-mail mailto:[log in to unmask]
URL http://www.britishcouncil.org
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