Chris,
Kudos to you for your idea to create a resources page. I am sure many
people would benefit from your shared knowledge.
I learn from this list serve almost every day. Keep up the great work.
Ron Nelson
Chula vista, CA
> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:13:11 -0400
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Callers] List serve etiquette and calling skills
>
> List moderator Chris here:
>
> Bree has the right of it. If you look through the archives, you'll see
> that this is not the first time we've discussed this.
>
> If you are on the digest or not, please edit the header and remove
> irrelevant messages as a kindness to the others on the list. If you are
> on the digest, it's also a kindness to yourself when you receive your
> next digest containing your message.
>
> JoLaine: I'm going to publicly respond to your comments here because I
> think that there might be others here who have the same questions, but
> haven't expressed them. There is another group called
> "trad-dance-callers" which is on Yahoo groups. If you aren't part of
> that list, you should check it out and see if it is to your liking. When
> Seth and I started this list, we wanted to have a list that did not have
> advertising or a corporation collecting our information. All data for
> the list is stored on Seth's private server and we do not share that
> information with anyone. We sacrificed some functionality because of
> that, but are happy with the way things are. We decided to make the
> archives publicly available since we feel that the valuable information
> (the shared wisdom of our participants) not be confined to just the
> people who subscribe. When I view list posts, I do not see the header
> info when I view them in Thunderbird. I do see the footer info that the
> list server adds. Maybe Gmail doesn't filter them the same way or we all
> need to be a little better about editing our replies. We hope that
> everyone enjoys the list as it is and we do welcome your comments and
> feedback. Please feel free to make suggestions on how to improve our
> services.
>
> One of the things that I have been considering for a while is building a
> resources page for the website. If you would like to see something like
> that happen, please send me your documents, websites, useful books
> (title and author) and other resources and I'll see what I can put
> together. If you're interested in helping to compile the information
> into a webpage, let me know, too. Feel free to include resources for
> callers, organizers and musicians.
>
> Please send them directly to me at [email protected]. Use the
> subject line: "SharedWeight resources".
>
> Thank you all for your participation. You are the ones who make this a
> wonderful forum that is welcoming, informative and interesting. We are
> so pleased with how this list has turned out.
>
> Happy dancing and calling,
>
> Chris Weiler
> Goffstown, NH
>
>
> On 3/28/2011 1:49 PM, Bree Kalb wrote:
> > Applause for this topic and these suggestions. It seems to me that taking
> > care and spending a few extra seconds when replying to messages requires
> > some of the skills that make a good caller: consideration for your
> > audience, attention to detail, careful and deliberate choices. By the same
> > token, an occasional lapse is always forgiven graciously since we all make
> > mistakes.
> >
> > Bree Kalb
> >
>
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