Er, OK -Incredible..... seemed such an innocent little criticism at the time! And still may well have been largely correct, not that I'd be particularly keen in pursuing it further. Maybe I shouldn't have put the thing about the Amazon voucher or something :-/
Hope you all have nice relaxing weekends......
Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: A general Library and Information Science list for news and discussion. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ian Clark
Sent: 30 March 2012 11:08
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Views on persistent postings to this (and other LIS-) lists
I'm really trying hard to resist the urge to complain about people cluttering up my inbox by sending email to the list complaining about people cluttering inboxes.
Clearly I failed.
If you are worried about cluttering people's inboxes, please don't exacerbate the problem.
Thank you.
Ian Clark
Library Systems Officer,
Augustine House,
Canterbury Christ Church University
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Kane [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 30 March 2012 10:49
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Subject: Re: Views on persistent postings to this (and other LIS-) lists
Quite.
On 30 March 2012 10:35, Jackson, James <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Oh - please ! Enough !
> Just delete the guy's messages as they come in- and don't fill our in
> box's with messages about him.
>
>
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> discussion. [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kelleher, Martin [
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> Sent: 30 March 2012 10:26
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> Subject: Re: Views on persistent postings to this (and other LIS-)
> lists
>
> Hi Brian
>
> I hate to point out what's probably reasonably obvious, but surely
> those who would go to the trouble of filling in the questionnaire
> would represent the majority of those actively interested in the
> issue, which would mean the 100s (1000s?) that didn't answer are
> likely to be indifferent, making indifference by far the most common reaction?
>
> I recommend you do the survey again, this time offering a draw to win
> a
> £10 Amazon voucher - then you'll get a truer representation! ;-)
>
> Best wishes
>
> Martin Kelleher
> Electronic Resources/Bibliographic Services Librarian University of
> Liverpool
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: A general Library and Information Science list for news and
> discussion. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brian Kelly
> Sent: 30 March 2012 09:40
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Views on persistent postings to this (and other LIS-)
> lists
>
> For info I have now closed the survey.
>
> There were a total of 199 responses, with 237 people accessing the
> survey form. A total of 71% of respondents were annoyed by the
> inappropriate postings, 25% indifferent and 4% who were pleased to receive such postings.
> The 4% represents just 9 responses.
>
> I hope this provides evidence of the list members' views. Note that I
> am not a member of other lists, such as LIS-E-RESOURCES which also
> seem to have been subject to large numbers of inappropriate postings.
> If members of such lists wish to gauge views from fellow list members
> I would recommend use of such a survey form rather than discussions on
> list - we would all have been annoyed if there had been 237 messages posted on the list!
>
> Some further stats:
>
> Responses from UK: 189; from Ireland: 5; from US: 3; from Netherlands:
> 1 and from Australia: 1.
>
> From an analysis of the first 25 results, respondents spent between 6
> seconds and 1 minute 23 seconds completing the form. Assuming an
> average of 30 seconds that would mean an overall total of almost 2
> hours was spend collectively.
>
> Brian
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