Dennis, Yes, I'm sorry I wasn't more detailed in my announcement. I certainly have no intention of embarrassing anyone, and I did plan on contacting authors to ask if they have anything to add or subtract from whatever they wrote. I hope people will continue to comment freely, without fear that their words may show up somewhere else in disfigured form! On Fri, 2 Dec 1994, Dennis Johnson wrote: > > I think it is safe to say that everone agrees this e-mail dialogue > could be valuable source for Chapter Newsletter and/or Journal entries. I > would like to suggest that if and when some editor finds a significant > passage worthy of use elsewhere in print that he/she sends that particular > author a note to that effect (PRIVATELY PLEASE). Not necessarly as a > matter for approval but simply to give that author a chance to double check > their piece before it is further distributed in print in a format that is > necessarly out of context. We all have sent something and latter wished > maybe one word could be changed. If I were an editor I would not consider > printing a signficant passage (more than a mere statement) of someone > else's without sending them a quick note (PRIVATELY) to confirm its > accuracy. This Cutting and Pasting feature will eliminate many past > problems, but I have seen some of my own things in Newsletters which > somehow grew serious errors and typos. I hope that I am not alone in this > opinion, and considering that this whole process would involve no more than > a minute or two of extra time it should not delay that particular edition. > > > > > Dennis Johnson > johnsond@stolaf.edu > > Steve Brady, RPT "The most expert and rapid tuners are... University of Washington possessed of a highly excitable, sbrady@u.washington.edu nervous, and emotional temperament, verging on the border of insanity at times." -Daniel Spillane, The Tuner's Guide
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