email me directly

Subject: "email me directly"
From: Wolfgang Hell
Date: 24 Jun 97 - 06:37 AM

Phrases like the one above show in some threads. I am not in favor of them for two reasons:

1) It happens that somebody asks for lyrics I also would like to see without having to start an extra thread.

2) Sometimes I can contribute the lyrics, but since I have to do it the old-fashioned way by typing them down I would hate to do a work that someone else has already done.

I guess this must have been mentioned before in another thread but if this is so I have not seen it.

Yours Wolfgang

Subject: RE:
From: Bobby O'Brien
Date: 24 Jun 97 - 08:34 AM

I use "email me directly" so that if the person wants a tape of the song in question, they may e-mail me their address to post it, instead of advertising their address on the forum to everyone, which they may consider risky or an invasion of privacy.

I do however post lyrics here on the forum for everyone's access.

Bobby O'Brien

Subject: RE:
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 Jun 97 - 02:58 AM

I think if a person asks for lyrics, it's a good idea for them to post their e-mail address. I hate to type up a song and then find the requestor didn't get it. thanks to the wonders of cut-and-paste, it's quite easy to type up as song in your word processor, copy it to memory, and paste it into both this forum and an e-mail message to a requestor. Now, if it's a song that's in the database, I try to e-mail the lyrics to the requestor and post a message in the forum to say that I've taken care of the request from the so-and-so that didn't know how to look in the database or was too lazy to do so .

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: "email me directly"
From: RS
Date: 26 Jun 97 - 07:16 PM

I just found the words to "She's Katy - Little Lady" posted 24 June 97, after my original request went up 08 June 97.

I almost missed seeing this, had given up looking for it specifically since there had been no answer for so long; & had not happened to check this site for several days now ... and I don't always go back very far, depending how much time I have ... if I'd left my "age" setting at three days & not checked until tomorrow, I could have missed this altogether!

Which is to say, if I had put my e-mail address on the original request, the replier could have simply sent me a note alerting me to check the site for the reply, & I would have known to look there, even if I didn't happen to log onto the net for several weeks.

This way the reply could be both public and private at the same time!

Subject: RE:
From: Rodney Rawlings
Date: 27 Jun 97 - 08:08 AM

I'm in favor of "e-mail me directly" because it may not be convenient for the requestor to be looking every day at the forum to see if there has been a reply - especially if he seeks an obscure item and does not plan to be a regular visitor to the forum.

Subject: RE: Email me directly
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 27 Jun 97 - 09:54 PM

Our only objection to "e-mail me directly" is that if a lyric is e-mailed and not posted, only one person gets it. Which isn't precicely what this whole operation is about.

Subject: RE:
From: Rodney Rawlings
Date: 28 Jun 97 - 08:47 PM

Hmm. ... Let's all think about that one.

Subject: RE:
From: Rick
Date: 01 Jul 97 - 01:06 PM

This problem arises in many "newsgroups". If I make a request for assistance / information in a newsgroup I usually say something like "e-mail me direct as well as posting here".

Reasons:

1. e-mail direct so that I get the benefit of the groups experience even if I can't join the group for some time (I move around a lot and not all the sites I go to have a comprehensive set of newsgroups).

2. post to newsgroup so that all gain the benefit - as dick greenhaus says, that's the point of most newsgroups

This imposes a slightly greater burden on the person providing the information, but with cut'n'paste it's probably not to onerous.

Just a thought...

Subject: RE:
From: Wolfgang Hell
Date: 02 Jul 97 - 03:49 AM

Thanks for telling me some resons to use the line "email me directly" I had not thought of before. If everybody does what for example Dick and Rick suggest, I have no problem anymore. And I remember phrases like "I have taken care of that request" that gave at least me all the information I wanted. Cheers Wolfgang