Circulating responses to the listserv

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Cynthia and EPrime readers,

This is an excellent posting which, as list maintainer, I very much
appreciate.  I hope it has the desired results.  Of course, some questions
are hard to answer, but I agree very much that eventually all answers should
get posted  to the list.  As you say, it is particularly the responsibility
of the person who posted the problem to post the final answer or work
around.  If an important problem goes unresolved or unanswered, it seems
correct to me that, after after 7-10 days, the original poster would just
send a posting saying that it went unresolved.

By the way, I was delighted to see that Minnesota is organized well enough
to realize that they need to have someone with the official title of
"E-Prime Consultant".  Also, for those who wonder where old messages are
stored, let me give this URL:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/eprime.html

--Brian MacWhinney (e-prime list maintainer), CMU


On 6/11/03 1:02 PM, "Cynthia J DeVore" <devo0023 at tc.umn.edu> wrote:

> You may have noticed that lately our listserv shows many more questions
> than responses. One might think that those questions have gone unanswered.
> Instead, I suspect that people are responding directly to the sender,
> bypassing the listserv. While that seemed nice (because it reduced the
> number of emails I was receiving), it has contributed to less communication
> in our society. As a result, our archive of old emails has more and more
> unanswered questions.  (I, myself, have replied directly to the originator
> of problems.) I'd appreciate it if those who pose the problem get responses
> "offline" that they post a summary of the responses so that our archive is
> current. I'll try to do the same.
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> Cynthia J. DeVore
> Graduate Student
> University of Minnesota - Industrial/Organizational Psychology
> devo0023 at tc.umn.edu
> 612-624-3601
> Office hours for E-Prime Consultant:
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