Hi Tom: The mailing list that I used was based on a list given to me by Claude Hartman. Several months ago, Claude sent a form letter to all NASS members asking them if they would be willing to serve on the FAQ committee (and/or other NASS projects). They were asked to reply by sending Claude a postcard. My FAQ mailing list comprised only those people who responded to Claude's initial mailing and who do not have e-mail addresses. I contacted all other respondants by e-mail. If you did not send back the postcard to Claude, you wouldn't be on either list.
Hope I answered your question, John >John, > >Should I not have got the NASS mailing you refer to? >If I am not on the membership list at your disposal, please >inform me. > >Tom McHugh > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Rt. 1, Box 896 >Fort Fairfield, ME 04742 >USA > >N 46° 45' 13" >W 67° 48' 42" > >---------- >> Hello All Dialists: >> >> The question gathering phase of the FAQ project is almost complete. I'm >> just waiting for the rest of the NASS members to respond with their >> questions to the mailing I sent them. Next week, I will submit my finished >> list of questions to you people on the sundial list for any final >> corrections, suggestions or last minute additions to the list of questions. >> The list will then go to Claude Hartman who will have to find a chairman to >> head the answer committee. Unfortunately, as of yet, nobody has volunteered >> to do this job. Although I am extremely interested in this project, I don't >> think that I am qualified for this position. Besides, I just don't have the >> time, as I do have a business that I'm trying to run! >> >> I can't stop thinking about how the committee might go about assembling all >> the FAQ answers. I know that the vast majority of the sundial questions >> (There are 211 of them!) have already been previously asked and answered on >> the sundial list. A couple weeks ago, someone posted a site which has ALL of >> the correspondence that has ever been done on the list. There have been >> over 300,000 letters to the list since its inception!!! Too bad there isn't >> a way to easily go through all these and pick out the answers to the FAQ >> list. Or is there? >> >> Do any of you have any ideas as to how the poor chairman of the FAQ answer >> committee might go about assembling answers to the FAQs in a way that would >> be fairly simple and easy? I might add, that everyone that I have contacted >> from NASS and this list, has volunteered to serve on the answer committee. >> So there are a lot of people willing to help provide answers. >> >> I know this is a long shot, but I'll ask again: Would any of you like to be >> chairman? >> >> Yours truely, >> >> John Carmichael >> >> > > >
