Re: A proposal to the tech writing list moderator

[JIMCHEVAL -at- AOL -dot- COM]

In a message dated 97-09-23 18:04:58 EDT, pagantt -at- POSTOFFICE -dot- WORLDNET -dot- ATT -dot- NET
writes:

<< I have yet to figure out why people join
 list if they don't want to receive email??? >>
Missing adjective: RELEVANT e-mail.

For the same reason people go to conferences and meetings, knowing that more
than likely they'll have to listen to a lot of dross to get a bit of gold.

There's a human, not entirely negative, tendancy to hold forth once a group
is gathered.  So most meetings of people for most reasons tend to slide
off-topic or towards minutiae.  [This has a LOT to do with why I'm glad I'm a
consultant.] But that doesn't mean we shouldn't fight that tendancy.
 Especially when a list is as targeted as this one (not to mention that it's
made up of professional writers, who can fill a page manually faster than
most people can cut and paste.)

Jim Chevallier
Los Angeles
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