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Re: "Reasonable" E-Mail Contact?



On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 15:02:45 -0500, christine harper <harperc@SLU.EDU>
wrote:

>Dear Folks,
>
>Steve Masar asked whether it's "reasonable" to expect researchers to
>provide e-mail addresses along with/instead of U. S. postal mail
>addresses. (I refuse to use the derogatory term "snail mail.")
>
>Sorry, but the current insistence on e-mail addresses pushes all the
>wrong buttons with me.  As an archivist, I don't care how people prefer
>to be contacted, although I don't like playing phone tag any more than
>Steve does, especially the long-distance kind.  Besides, I often end up
>using an e-mail address only to request a postal mail address in order
>to send the patron Xerox copies of the material requested. (No, we can't
>scan the info or provide it all over the internet).
>

The following link will take you to a recent column by WF Buckley
concerning this selfsame issue. Very interesting to say the
least


http://www.nationalreview.com/buckley/buckley040502.asp


Peterk

PS - I remember well the first time I saw a researcher lug an Osborne I
into the archives where I was working. Talk about an epiphany or road to
Damascus moment. I knew then that I wanted a 'puter with which I could do
research. Databases, spreadsheets, powerpoint, e-docs all have proved
beneficial to me in my research. I couldn't imagine every doing RAIN by
hand.

PAK

PPS - for CF -- Hammurabi used clay tablets not papyrus. I was there.

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