Addressing your letters

[Evan H Shu <eshu (Evan H Shu)>]

April 21, 1995

Dear DataCAD folks:

I have been asked to ask you to please try to remember to identify 
yourselves at the bottom of your letters. Apparently certain bulletin board 
systems actually strip out the headers before forwarding them to their 
users (namely Cadkey's apparently.) So it is not simply a case of their 
being too lazy to look up in the header of the messages. (And it seems that 
at times they really do want to answer your questions but can't. So lets 
not give them any excuses not to answer you!)

Also even though an E-mail address may be given, often times names are not. 
While at times, you may indeed want to hide behind the anonymity of an 
e-mail address only, providing a phone or fax number or even a mailing 
address can be helpful especially if you are requesting specific 
information that is not easily provided over E-mail. Those of you with 
off-line e-mail reader/writers might see if your program offers the option 
of providing a "signature" which can be automatically placed at the bottom 
of your correspondence. This make is easy for anyone to get in touch with 
you. For example, this is what my signature looks like for private e-mail 
correspondence.

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Evan H. Shu, AIA                                Shu Associates
eshu@world.std.com                              10 Thacher St., Suite 114
(617)367-9622 Telephone & Fax                   Boston, MA  02113    USA
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Then of course, here's the forum signature that I try to use to remind all 
of you how to post new items and get free stuff.  Thanks for listening.

Evan H. Shu, AIA
administrator of the DataCAD-DBUG forum

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