E-DRUG: The use of abbreviations & summary in long messages
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If the moderator agree with me, I would like to draw E-Drugers
attention to the following points:
- If abbreviation is being used used in their messages, it should at least
once be written in full. Because of the diversity of fields that E-Druggers
are working in, I think not all the abbreviations are understandable to
everyone.
- Secondly, if a long message is being sent, it had better be accompanied
with a short summary of one or two paragraphs.
Thank you,
Dr A.F.Danish
Former Associate Prof. in Pharmacology,
Faculty of Medicine, Kabul Afghanistan
Email: afdanish@hotmail.com
[I agree, as long as I am allowed to sign as WB (Wilbert Bannenberg)....
May I add some more technical remarks:
- please send plain text messages to E-drug. Avoid HTML (hyper text markup
language) messages as they mess up the layout. HTML looks like this:
<html>
<font face="Bookman Old Style, Bookman">We are trying to choose a
suitable drug for the deworming program to be conducted among
malnourished children under 2 years of age. Albendazole could be a
choice. <br>
<br>
- please set line width to max 75 characters (otherwise the moderators must
reformat too long lines; some e-druggers still send 132 character wide
messages which scroll off the screen)
- please do not put an automatic "out of office" system on the email
address where you subscribe to E-drug, as this sends a message back to
E-drug every time we send you a message. I suggest you create a separate
email address for email conferences if you need to inform your business
colleagues that you're out. We normally unsubscribe those "out of office"
offenders!
- send SUBSCRIBE and UNSUBSCRIBE messages to majordomo@usa.healthnet.org
and please NOT to e-drug@usa.healthnet.org
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unscubscribe, and you started using another email address in the meantime,
ask the moderator to do it manually at owner-e-drug@usa.healthnet.org
- each E-drug message should have a 'signature' file with at least
name, affiliation and email. Tel, fax and snailmail are nice to have.
This helps other e-druggers to contact you directly.
- private replies are better made by using the FORWARD button! If you
use the REPLY button, your private message goes to all 1260 E-druggers
unless the moderator filters it out.
- drug information questions should preferably be sent to INDICES rather
than to E-drug. Send to indices@usa.healthnet.org
- the E-drug archives are available at our website:
http://www.healthnet.org/programs/edrug.html
- french speaking E-druggers should consider E-MED at
e-med@usa.healthnet.org
- a spanish speaking E-drug exists but is not very active: E-MEDICAMENTOS
at e-medicamentos@egroups.com
- if you get irritated by too many E-drug messages, consider switching to
E-drug-digest. This Healthnet service 'collates' e-drug messages until they
reach 24 KBytes, and then sends it in one bunch. You could do that as
follows: send email to majordomo@usa.healthnet.org
with the text:
unsubscribe e-drug
subscribe e-drug-digest
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Thanks for your collaboration!
Wilbert Bannenberg
E-drug moderator
WilbertBannenberg@compuserve.com
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