In reply to: > Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:56:52 -0800 > From: Larry Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks Larry, a) for explaining b) for the hint: > i think http://www.webfoot.com/advice/email.top.html would be a more > effective reference. I should have read it first... :-) c) Also Patrick gave me some flag (off the list) for dragging it into the public before first contacting efn staff. Yes, he is right. I am sorry. To explain why I lost it: I had put a fair amount of energy into organizing an event with an invited speaker; that was posted half a day before the outage to 3 mailing lists and 2 newspapers. What probably most of the recipients saw was: " You step in the stream, but the water has moved on. This page is not here. " - Though not totally inappropriate for a canoe club, it was not exactly what we had announced :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I know you folks at efn work very hard to keep things moving. Sometimes, for the technical crew it's not so obvious how changes affect the end user, and how to communicate things to a diverse spectrum of users (what's too much for some is not enough for others). At work I have learned to talk with non-technical staff or the department heads first before making changes that impact their crews. That extra step helps with the overall communication, but also distributes the responsibility to some extend. For instance, what about using Ray or Tasha as a sounding board before announcing more drastic changes? --just a thought. - Horst _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
