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Subject: Re: A BIG BLACK HOLE IN SPACE
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 20:53:34 -0000
Hi Bob,
You have hit the nail square on the head. I also send out a lot of response
email and receive no reply.
It can be very dis-heartening to think that your time is wasted on 'lost'
emails. Fear not, they are not lost, just ignored, for any incorrectly
addressed emails will come back to you.
The only remedy is to either stop responding, which negates the share
research, or make a note not to reply to these again.
Sometimes pressure of work means I have a stack of replies to get through
and I make the effort to sit down for the time necessary and reply. It may
be weeks later but I do reply.
Keep up the good work and don't let these minority cadgers get you down.
Regards
Dave Andrews
PS I'm not on your list am I?
Magazine:- http://web.ukonline.co.uk/dave.andrews/contents.html
Genealogy:-
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/dave.andrews/thevault/andrewsindex.html
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> From: RHJ Hayward <>
> To: ; ;
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> Subject: A BIG BLACK HOLE IN SPACE
> Date: 07 March 1998 08:26
>
> I am in a quandry.
>
> I have responded to countless people who have asked for connections to
> names that appear in my tree.
>
> I do not know how many of my messages have "become lost" in
> transmission.
>
> I always reply to people who contact me, even if they are found not to
> be
> connected with me.
>
> The quandry is - have the message become lost, or have the recipients
> not thought to acknowledge? If lost, I would be happy to try again.
>
> Could we establish that a brief acknowledgement be sent upon receipt of
> a message that offers help? It cost so very little to send over the
> net, it is courteous to do so, and the sender will know that his message
> has arrived.
>
> At one time I sent great detail, but now I send only the bare bones as I
> have the feeling
> that my many years of research may be used without so much as a "Thank
> you".
>
> I am perfectly happy to share what I have with anyone and I would like
> to thank
> all you wonderful people out there that unstintingly share your work.
>
> Bob Hayward,
>
> Hereford, England
>
>
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