Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!twwells!bill From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: am I supposed to say "thank you"? Message-ID: <1990Jan4.103621.20255@twwells.com> Date: 4 Jan 90 10:36:21 GMT References: Organization: None, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Lines: 27 In article GOLDSTN@MAINE.BITNET (Michael E. Goldstein) writes: : Do repliers want (or expect) an e-mail note of : appreciation. God knows I appreciate all the : help I get, (and so does my employer) but is it proper : to email a thank you note? E-mail thank yous are nice. Most people, including myself, get a warm fuzzy when appreciated. I've seen a number of "should I send e-mail when...." questions here recently. The general answer to them is: *very* few people don't like getting nice e-mail. Go ahead and send it. If you are mistaken, and the person does not like getting e-mail, he'll let you know, and you can add him to your list and then not bother him again. Another approach, if sending zillions of e-mail notes seems a bit outrageous, is a short, public acknowledgement of those who helped. (Yes, I know: some people will cry "waste of bandwidth". Ignore them. This net could use more than a bit more of such "waste".) Write a posting describing what you learned and in it let the net know who contributed. From such postings, everybody wins. --- Bill { uunet | novavax | ankh | sunvice } !twwells!bill bill@twwells.com