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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 15:26:01 -0700
From: Philip Hoehn <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Save Time on Maps-L?
Sender: Philip Hoehn <[log in to unmask]>
Hi Johnnie,
Excellent idea to ask contributors to include two letter abbrev.,
but I don't think you should have to re-write subject line if someone
forgets (you do far more than your fair share of map librarianship's work
already).
Phil
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 16:29:48 -0400 Johnnie Sutherland
<[log in to unmask]> writes:
> 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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