Anne,
I don't understand why you should feel uncomfortable about it. It may not be the most appropriate platform, but people are entitled to their opinion.
If they are prepared to voice it publically, that should tell the list administrators something.
It's nice to see names not usually vocal on the list, even in this context!
Donald Maclean
Learning Technologies Manager
Freedom of Information Officer
Perth College
Crieff Road
Perth
PH1 2NX
Direct Line: 01738 877625
>>> Anne Welsh <[log in to unmask]> 13/05/2009 12:14 >>>
Hi there
Are you aware that this conversation is going out to the whole list?
I, for one, feel quite uncomfortable about it.
Surely we have a mailing policy for the list and its terms have not been
broken?
Regards
Anne
Martin White wrote:
> Dear Austin
>
> I sent the following email to Gerard last year, but it gained no response
>
> Regards
> Martin
> Martin White
> Managing Director
> Intranet Focus Ltd
> 12 Allcard Close
> Horsham RH12 5 AJ
> 01403 267030
> http://www.intranetfocus.com
>
> Dear Gerry
> Like you I am an Associate Professor, or more correctly a Visiting
> Professor, at the Department of Information Studies, University of
> Sheffield. Today I was at a professional meeting and the subject of your
> email barrage on list-serves came up. It transpired that many of us now just
> send your emails direct to our spam filters. It's not that we are not
> interested in the subjects you raise - indeed some of your comments are of
> considerable value. However we all feel that at least one email a day from
> you is just too much like spam.
>
> Like you I have opinions on what is happening in my particular space, and I
> blog on my web site. Some people around the world sign up to an RSS feed and
> are alerted to what I am saying - but the overwhelming majority could not
> care less. The way that you use mailing lists means that I cannot even
> unsubscribe to your stream of emails without cutting myself off from a
> mailing list I find of considerable professional value. By all means set up
> some RSS feeds, and then I could subscribe and see a one line header that I
> could open up if I so desire.
>
> But I would be most interested to learn why you, as a distinguished and
> experienced information professional, justify sending out information to
> people who may not be interested in it without any means of them stopping
> the stream of emails arriving in their email boxes. How would your users
> feel at ISU if you just walked in to their office every day with all the
> chemistry journals that had arrived that day, providing them with no means
> of selecting which ones they wanted? Equally how would you feel if you
> walked past their office door an hour later to find that the journals were
> all in the trash can unread?
>
> Your output contains much that is of interest and value to the profession
> but the impact would be so much greater if you did not scream at us through
> email but whisper in our ear when we need inspiration
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: UKEIG: the UK eInformation Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of A C L Hall
> Sent: 12 May 2009 11:17
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Gerard McKiernan - too much
>
> My eMail seems to contain about half a dozen emails from him via you
> each day. Is there anyway short of filtering them to junk that you
> could cut down on his prolixity? Or shall I contact him direct; I
> don't want to hurt his feelings but ....
>
>
> Austin Hall
> 47 Burbage Road, London SE24 9HB
>
> 020807333297
> [log in to unmask]
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