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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 13:49:07 -0700
From: Jennifer Stone Muilenburg <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re:      Save Time on Maps-L?
Sender: Jennifer Stone Muilenburg <[log in to unmask]>



Hi Johnnie. I think it's a lot of work to ask you to rewrite subject
headings for all job-related annoucements. It's a slippery slope to
rewriting subject lines for all messages... Personally, it takes me about
3-5 seconds to scan a job posting to see if it's relevant to my area and
interests. I think people are mostly quite good at formatting their own
messages and subject lines. That said, I don't think it would hurt to ask
folks to format their subject lines in a certain way, and if they don't, and
it comes across incorrectly, it's really no big deal. Similar to the ESRI
lists, where there are several subject prefixes requested (DATA, SUM,
etc.) -- sometimes they don't come across in the requested format, but
mostly they do.

...just my two cents...

Jenny Stone Muilenburg
University of Washington Libraries
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Johnnie Sutherland" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 1:29 PM
Subject: Save Time on Maps-L?


> Maps-L Friends:
>
>      Your Moderator would like to ask the group what they think about
> the following request from a member of our group.  It has to do with
> jog announcements.  Below is the text of the request.
>
> -------message----------
> Hello -
>    Could you, as moderator, send out a message on maps-l asking folks to
> please, please put the 2-letter state abbreviation at the beginning of the
> subject for job announcements?   Example: NY Job Open: Map Cataloger
>    Many of us only want to see the ones for our region, and it would be
> very helpful to be able to see from the subject where the job is.
>    Also, if they would use the much shorter "Job Open" instead of "Job
> Announcement", you could see what kind of job it is - another way
> to know whether or not you really need to see that particular email.
>    Many thanks from just another overworked librarian
> -------end message---------
>
>     I would like feedback from the group.  What would you all like?
> At present I forward to the list the job notices without changes.  I
> could ask people to format the subject line, but I would think there
> would always be a certain percentage of the messages that would never
> be formated correctly.  The quickest way for the information to flow
> would be for me, the Moderator, to do a quick re-write of the subject
> line where it was needed.  Do you as a group want the subject line
> for job notices to have a standard format?  Do you as a group want me
> to do that type of re-write?
>
> Johnnie Sutherland
> Moderator, Maps-L
>
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