From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V5 #292 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Monday, December 4 2000 Volume 05 : Number 292 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: what's up in Barbville [Beth Meyer ] Re: Alloy: Apologies [Beth Meyer ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 16:53:50 -0500 From: Beth Meyer Subject: Re: Alloy: what's up in Barbville "...As a known scientist"...Congratulations on the moon rock article, Barbara! I'll have to check it out. I continue to wonder whether I wouldn't have been better off heading into academia, as opposed to laboring anonymously for a company that ended up laying off most of my co-workers and my husband and canceling most of my projects. But, you make your choices in life and live with them... Congrats again, Beth bethmeyer@mindspring.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 17:10:11 -0500 From: Beth Meyer Subject: Re: Alloy: Apologies Hi, Elaine; Don't worry about it, it was innocuous enough (and easy enough to figure out what happened). But I do have a funny story of a rather egregious example of a similar mistake. Some years ago, I was on an e-mail mailing list for the entire membership of the Association of Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI). If you're not familiar with SIGCHI, it is *huge*, and one of the main professional organizations for people who focus on making computer applications easy for real human beings to use. Anyway, apparently, this list was unmoderated, even though people usually exercised tremendous restraint given the size of the list, only using it for conference announcements and so forth. Well, this one relatively well-known researcher in the organization used the list to make some sort of professional announcement. Shortly thereafter, we all got a reply from another well-known researcher, along these lines: "Hi, Jon! Good to hear from you again. Are you still at (X organization)? I'm still at Y company, but I have just accepted a new job at Z university. Haven't told anyone at Y about it yet, though..." etc., etc. And of course, he signed with his full name. Of course, a couple of days later, we all got another e-mail from the second guy, apologizing profusely (and letting us all know that yes, he HAD now informed his boss that he was resigning)... I always wondered about the conversations he must have had with his peers at Y corporation, who surely would have been subscribed to the same list. You can count your blessings... ;-) - -Beth Elaine Linstruth wrote: > Guess I hit "reply" when I didn't realize it! Sorry. Personal mail sent > by mistake to a friend of mine in Coral Springs. Luckily, at least, it's > not supremely embarrassing in any way (other than my butterfingers). I'll > tell Dawn I'm sure you're all happy for her news. :) > > > > -- > Elaine Linstruth > Palmdale, CA, USA ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V5 #292 ***************************