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From: dmark@cs.Buffalo.EDU (David Mark)
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Subject: Re: How to compile a psychologists' email directory?
Message-ID: <540@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Date: 7 Aug 88 00:20:58 GMT
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Reply-To: dmark@sunybcs.UUCP (David Mark)
Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Geography
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In article <2721@mind.UUCP> harnad@mind.UUCP (Stevan Harnad) writes:
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>This is a copy of letter to Bob Morecock, Editor of Psychnet:
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>Bob, 
>
>Here is a thought I had: You could perform a double service, to Psychnet
>as well as the psychological community if you systematically put together
>a psychologists' email address directory. I heard (perhaps from you) that
>APA will be publishing members' email addresses, but that's in hard copy and
>a while away. If you could get the addresses in an electronic file/listserver
>it would be a great service to the field AND would give Psychnet an automatic
>broad subscribership.

I have had good success in compiling such a directory for geographers and other
spatial scientists.  Three of us began the project by merging our own lists
about 3 years ago.  Then, we ran a workshop on e-mail at the Association
of American Geographers' national meeting in May 1986.  Periodically, I send
the file to all in the file, asking them to confirm their entries and
suggest colleagues to add.  It just grows and grows.  I did a mass e-mailing
in June to about 240 users, and got about 60-70 new ones back.  I even
have a few spatial psychologists!   We have suggested that a field for
email address be added to the AAG's membership form.

David Mark, Chair, AAG Gegraphic Information Systems Specialty Group

geodmm@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu
geodmm@ubvms.BITNET