[bksvol-discuss] Re: message limits
- From: Scott Rains <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 16:42:39 -0700
Dear Bookshare Volunteers,
I would like to make my apology public for the embarrassment I recently caused
Jamie, Monica, and perhaps others. My sincere apologies. In private
communications I have been overzealous in attempting to address some issues
raised in our list discussions such as civility, volume, and topicality.
In my short time with you I observe that this community has evolved many good
practices that make you all a pleasure to work with. Among these are:
Members are very generous with their time sometimes anticipating the needs of
others and frequently investing long hours and much knowledge to meeting the
goals of Bookshare.
Often members with responses meant purely for the poster move these off-list to
a personal email, IM, or chatroom.
Members use “Off Topic,” in moderation, as a legitimate category of posts.
Labeling a message as ( OT: ) in the subject line allows others to skip it
without worrying that they might miss something of importance equal to our
core technical issues of scanning, proofing, or collection development. It is
also shows respect for those using screenreaders who must tediously go through
everything in sequence rather than make the scans and leaps an eye makes on a
page.
Thanks to all of you.
Scott Rains
Bookshare Volunteer Coordinator, Interim
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From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Monica Svopa [mrod16@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 6:04 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: message limits
Hello everyone. I wanted to write and say I'm sorry for posting the message
regarding message limites. I didn't mean anything against anyone at all. I
was just mad and was having a bad morning. I should have never sent the
message. Sorry for this conversation even starting. My sincere apologies.
Monica Svopa
----- Original Message -----
From: Melissa Smith<mailto:mdsmith25@xxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 8:03 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: message limits
This is just ridiculous. Once again, we alienate someone who takes scanning and
proofing very seriously, and who truly wants to grow our collection with high
quality books. Someone who is able and willing to take on difficult projects.
Why anyone would believe that there should be a limit on how many messages are
sent to the list each day by an individual is beyond me. This especially true
when these messages aren't even off topic. Talk about censorship. I'm sorry,
Jamie.
Melissa Smith
On 5/11/2010 6:43 PM, Jamie Yates, CPhT wrote:
Monica and list, I apologize. It appears I am the culprit of posting too much
to the list, even for on topic messages like questions about the author or
exact title of a book.
I am completely to blame because I am eager to help grow the collection and to
make the wishes for books of others come true. I am one of the few volunteers
who will spend my own limited free time hunting down books that are hard to
find or even not so hard to find to make available to Bookshare members.
I have been told that in the future if I have questions about books I should
email the person doing the wishing privately and I will do so. If that means
that another person also obtains and scans the same book that I am getting to
scan, then we will be doing duplicate work because the list will not know I am
working on the book. But that's the way it has to be, I guess. Given that the
wishlist grows by leaps and bounds all of the time, I'm guessing it might not
be a problem since there don't appear to be too many others who are willing to
hunt down wishes and get them in the collection.
So again, my apologies. I didn't realize that other people's free time to read
and scan and proof was more valuable than my own free time.
In the future if you have wishes for books please email me privately at
mirxtech@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:mirxtech@xxxxxxxxx> so we don't bother the list with
extraneous conversation.
--
Jamie in Michigan
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