[Humanist] 22.592 monthly reminders

[Humanist Discussion Group]

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 592.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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  [1]   From:    Stan Ruecker <sruecker at ualberta.ca>                       (28)
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.591 apologies for the automated nagging

  [2]   From:    Shroyer <shroyer at uwo.ca>                                   (6)
        Subject: monthly reminder


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        Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:12:14 -0700
        From: Stan Ruecker <sruecker at ualberta.ca>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.591 apologies for the automated nagging
        In-Reply-To: <20090304064130.D42A02F74C at woodward.joyent.us>

Thanks, Willard. I appreciate your kindness in this matter.

- Stan

Humanist Discussion Group wrote:
>                  Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 591.
>          Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
>                        www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
>                 Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org
> 
> 
> 
>         Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:40:06 +0000
>         From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk>
>         > 
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> Presumably for some good reason, which I cannot now recall, I asked for 
> a reminder mechanism to be enabled within Humanist so that once a month 
> each member would be nagged to signify their continued existence to the 
> software. I find this apparent request of mine to Malgosia, the 
> programmer, utterly out of character, since I myself get annoyed at such 
> automated nags. Anyhow, I have now asked her to disable this mechanism 
> and hereby apologise to everyone for having caused such a thing to be 
> done. That everyone here once signified their existence should be enough!
> 
> All the best.
> 
> Yours,
> WM



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        Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:20:42 -0500
        From: Shroyer <shroyer at uwo.ca>
        Subject: monthly reminder
        In-Reply-To: <20090304064130.D42A02F74C at woodward.joyent.us>

Still, in the event that one is no longer alive to receive these  
vital newsletters, an annual reminder that must be acknowledged would  
probably serve. I can imagine in a few years being bounced back from  
several subscribed sites.
Regards,
RJS