Dear Professional friends, Many a times we waste our time in reading very badly written as well as frivolous postings in the LIS-FORUM. We should not forget that these messages are read by more than 2000 professionals including academicians not only in India but abroad as well. I do understand that it would be difficult to read all the postings by the moderator as it is a voluntary service and not a paid job to spare lot of office timings for this work. However we members of this forum need to take care of sending only professionally useful messages of good quality. I would like to quote one of the recent posting on 31-3-2009 reporting about recently held conference at NAL on "Scholorly Communication in India in the Age of the Commons (Open Access)". While any one can give their opinion about any event, the report should be posted only by the concerned like Organizing Secretary / Convener, etc. The least one has to do is to read the postings at least once before sending it to the LIS-FORUM. This report contained sentences like: "...... the conference begin with "WORM" welcome by...." ".....Arunachalaiah was brief the significance of...." ".....Prof. Mukunda was also inaugurated...." ".....Dy Head, ICAST was "comparer...." "....He has argues a scientific judgement..." While I had appreciate the enthusiasm of the concened professional, I request him and others as well to take care of correctness before submitting postings to the extent possible atleast it should not give different altogether. In fact almost two years back I had posted an item on LIS-FORUM about DOs and Don'ts LIS-FORUM postings. I remember one or two now: 1. If any professional gets an award or achieves something definitely it is an item to be announced by some body who comes to know about the achievement. The first announcement is most welcome. However further postings on the same news congratulating one after the other and the recipient reciprocating the same for every mail should be avoided. One can as well congratulate the individual to his email once the posting is already done through LIS-FORUM. 2. ILL requests are most welcome on LIS-FORUM. Further postings on the same item like thanking through Lis-Forum are unnecessary. 3. It is interesting when some body raises an issue concerned to profession/service and others react. I appreciate the recent postings with issues and topics like SOUL, NEWGENLIB. Any number of reactions are welcome on such topics. 4. Although it takes away some time of the moderator, I strongly feel that he should have a look at the content of the posting. Either he can correct himself before releasing the posting or return it back to the sender if too many mistakes are found, unless it is very urgent message. I invite Professionals to add to what I suggested. With regards, Goudar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Sci G & Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.