Wanted or Unwanted Press Releases in the Technology Section of
From: Edward Zabrek, M.D. (stork@flash.net)
Sat, 18 Jul 1998 15:34:28 -0500
I would like to reiterate what Bruce wrote. As are all technogeeks, I get
excited about new techologies and can't wait to share the news with the
group. Unfortunately, I hear about alot of things before they are actually
released. I feel that the next best thing is to share a pertinent press
release with the tech group, knowing that I will be receiving and reviewing
the final product in the following months (after I have had a chance to
throroughly use and evaluate it). I, personally enjoy reading early press
announcements so that I can anticipate the future of technolgy. If, as a
group, you find this objectionable, please let me know and if indicated, I
will cease this process of early tech announcement with company press
releases attached.
Sincerely,
Ed
At 02:23 AM 7/18/98 -0500, you wrote:
>At 04:56 PM 7/17/98 -0500, Richard Lowensohn wrote:
>>Most of the messages have been coming in a mime format which my reader,
>for one,
>>can't handle. For ob-gyn-l we long ago agreed to try to keep to plain text.
>
>Yes, good advice, messages which are distributed to a list of subscribers
>should be sent in plain text and not MIME. This also means NOT sending
>email attachments like word documents to an entire list. For documents,
>send them to me first and I will put them up on a FTP server which can then
>be referenced. (note: some mailers don't call it MIME but rather HTML,
>don't send messages in HTML)
>
>>Could we do that here, as well? In any case, this seems to have
>degenerated into
>>an "advertised product of the month" rather than a discussion of
>technology....
>
>The origin of the Dragon Dictate review was a conversation I had with Ed
>Zabrak and Geff Levy while at ACOG in May. We decided then that this was
>an important technology, especially given the upcoming Medical Suite, to
>present to our OBGYN.net community of medical professionals. Ed followed
>up this conversation by obtaining the software and has begun to use it
>along with submitting reviews to this forum. Note, we approached them and
>not the other way around. This is not a paid or unpaid product
>advertisement but a regular technology presentation by Dr. Zabrak and
>OBGYN.net.
>
>Also please note that Steve Spratt immediately followed up his message
>which contained marketing material with an apology that he hadn't realized
>he was replying to the entire list.
>
>That is an easy mistake to make because most of the discussion lists we
>have setup on OBGYN.net are configured to default to replying to the list
>so as to keep the conversation threads going. Occasionally that causes a
>message to go to the list that should have been private.
>
>I hope this message clears up any confusion that may have happenned.
>Regards, Bruce
>
>>Richard Lowensohn MD
>>Depts Ob/Gyn and Medical Informatics & Outcomes Research
>>Oregon Health Sciences University
>>lowensoh@ohsu.edu
>
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