[Ct-nfb] From the Moderator

[Salisbury, Justin Mark]

Dear NFB of CT Family Members:

    I am writing to you with a simple request from other members of our Federation family.  It is about how to use this listserv more effectively.

First, if people receive tons of information, regardless of its relevance, from this list, they aren't going to read it.  This is the reason for this email.

Some members of our family have expressed irritation with reading emails that say nothing but "thank you," or "good job," especially when five others had said it previously.  If you want to send little notes like that, I urge you to please send them directly to the sender and not to the listserv.

With every email that comes through any nfbnet listserv, the return address includes the listserv address followed by "on behalf of" + the sender's address.  You can copy and paste the sender's address into a new email to give them your thank you's and other short notes of personal affection.

An example of a perfectly legitimate email on this list is Rich McGaffin telling everyone how much money the Southern Connecticut Chapter has raised with the bottle and can drive.

Before you send anything to the listserv, please ask yourself if it's really something that needs to enter the inboxes of all of our National Federation of the Blind of Connecticut family members' inboxes.

Thank you, and I wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving.

In service,

Justin Salisbury




Justin M. Salisbury
Undergraduate Student
The University Honors Program
East Carolina University
salisburyj08 at students.ecu.edu

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