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Re: Request specific header for Freebies



Man, this is a Great Idea Which Is Open to Discussion (GIWIOD).  May I
suggest more?

Not Friday Yet But Yet Another Friday Funny (NFYBYAFF).

Don't Read This If You Support Certification (DRTIYSC) and Read This If You
Support Certification (RTIYSC).

More Complaints About the Worthlessness of this Listserve (MCAWL).

Whaddya think?

Michael Angelo
Committee to Reduce Use of Acronyms (CRUA)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tara Calishain" <calumet@mindspring.com>
To: <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: Request specific header for Freebies


> At 09:53 AM 05/03/2002 -0400, Elizabeth W. Knowlton wrote:
> >I know we are all busy and it is hard to be creative in a hurry, but this
> >is a plea for more specific headers for items your archives is offering--
> >always posted as "Free to Good Home."
> >   Many of us get the list once a day as a table of contents and request
> >only messages of interest to us.  "Free to Good Home" would be more
> >usefully described as "Indiana Civil War letters Free to Good Home" [no
> >interest to me) or "State Thanksgiving Proclamations, 1888," (possibly of
> >interest, so I would read it) or "Rhoda Kaufman diary" (definitely of
> >interest as we have her records).  Recently we missed out on getting a
> >state record we do not have because someone else snatched it up before I
> >heard about it.
>
> If I may delurk for a moment and make a suggestion --
>
> -- on other lists I'm on we have header abbreviations that help delineate
> parts of the message. For example, on one list we have DRIB (Don't
> Read if Busy.) May I suggest for archives that we have FTGH (Free to
> Good Home)? So as Elizabeth suggested, You could have:
>
> FTGH: Rhoda Kaufman Diary
>
> This would have two benefits. It would help folks like Elizabeth easily
> identify
> items of possible interests, and it would allow non-archivists like me to
> filter out
> Free to Good Home messages.
>
> Just a thought. Back to lurk mode. I'm enjoying this list very much!
>
> Tara
> ResearchBuzz.com
>
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