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From: "Raymond W. Henderson" <>
Subject: Re: [AUS-MELB] Please make your posting / query clear
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:17:24 +1000
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I also agree,

It's starting to seem like members are being used on this list as some sort
of genies who can look into a hat and pull out the information.

Then at time after much time and work some of us might get a thank-you for a
job well done!

It's not for the want on my part in asking members to give as much
information as possible when asking list members for help.

Maybe it time for the List Dad to bring out the big "FLY SWAT" in the hope
it might wake some of the newer members up?

Or if someone would like to draft up some kind of guide lined formate that
others might store and use it as a type of formate when posting a request to
the list for help or information.

So I'll open this till the end of the weekend and ask for ideas, then at the
end of the weekend I'll use the information to put a formate together and
put it in so that when someone join the list this formate will automatically
go to every new member.

Thanks,
Ray.
Very Tired List Admin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anne Hanson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 8:55 AM
Subject: RE: [AUS-MELB] Please make your posting / query clear


> Dorne,
>
> I entirely agree - I seem to be hitting the delete key more frequently
> lately and I would like to suggest that people state their query in as
> precise a manner as possible.
>
> Cheers
>
> Anne H.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dornes Saunders [mailto:]
> Sent: Thursday, 13 July 2006 11:41 PM
> To:
> Subject: [AUS-MELB] Please make your posting / query clear
>
>
> Hi Listers,
> I am at a loss to comprehend why folks send a posting with just a list of
> surnames for a query.
> Without any forenames, time frame, place names the query is not much value
> to anyone wanting to help with lookups.
> Many others, like myself are more than willing to help with lookups to
> assist others but a list of surnames is not going to get a result other
> than
> the delete key.
> PLEASE for your own sake, make you postings mean something so that you may
> gain something of value in return.
> Regards,
> Dorne.
>
>
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