Sending messages to the Forum

July 3, 2007
From: Bill Rudman

As some of you have been reminding me, there has been a message on the send message page saying I would open it again at the end of April when I returned from New Zealand.


Now at the end of June I am happy to say you can send messages again. Why has it been closed? When I returned from New Zealand and saw how many unanswered messages there were, I decided I should try and answer them before receiving any more. I receive between 10 and 15 messages a day and usually can only prepare and answer 5 or 6. So inevitably there is a backlog, and unfortunately there are messages which will never be posted. Most of the messages I have posted in the last 2 months have been from the backlog. A few of you realised there was a way of sending messages by using the Reply button at the top of each message. I did not publicise this as it would have defeated the purpose of slowing down the arrival of new messages while I dealt with older ones.

Happily most messages received this year have now been, or are about to be, posted. I still have many from last year which I will try and deal with in future months. Please don't flood me with all the messages you have been building up over the last three months or I will be back to where I was in April. What I am going to do is be more strict in enforcing my Instructions on sending messages. I am spending too much time retyping messages and splitting messages containing two or three species. Please follow the instructions - they are not very onerous but if they are followed it means I can spend my time answering questions rather than retyping and editing. Remember I don't have a team of  typists or assistants - in fact I don't have any.

And how can you ensure your message get posted? Unhappily you can't - but if it doesn't need editing and typing its got a chance. And if it is informative, shows something new, a new locality record, or colour form, or shows an animal 'doing something' it has an even better chance.

Best wishes
Bill

Rudman, W.B., 2007 (Jul 3) Sending messages to the Forum. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/20103

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