Message-ID: <v02130500ae53c43e346d@[132.236.155.133]> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 00:51:46 -0400 From: "Sheryl N. Swink" <mailto:sns7@CORNELL.EDU> Subject: Re: Permaculture Swale & Pond Building Workshop mailto:@ Rodale Institute To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
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>In-Reply-To: <mailto:322CAC69.2B80@rodaleinst.org> from "Rebecca Haring" at Sep 3,
>96 03:08:41 mailto:pm@
>
>Tabloid reporters were flabbergasted when Rebecca Haring wrote:
Who are "Tabloid reporters"?
>
>> Rodale Institute to Hold Permaculture Swale and
>> Pond Building Workshop
>
>> Everyone is invited to enroll in the pond and swale building workshop
>> October xx-xx. All meals are included in the three-day admission
>> charge of $300. Lodging is available close by. Enrollment is limited.
>> Please call Rodale Institute at xxx-xxx-xxxx for information and
>> reservations.
>
>While admirable, this is off-topic for the compost list.
>Additionally, internet email is an inappropriate forum
>for unsolicited advertising.
I am on several of the mailing lists to which it was sent (Mulch-l, sustag-mg,. . .) and greatly appreciated this announcement of a workshop which I consider very complementary to my interests in composting, mulch and development. My only regret is that it begins on a Thursday when I have to teach two classes. The knowledge of ways to control and stockpile water would be greatly appreciated by farmers I am working with in the Dominican Republic who have determined that water is their major constraint in efforts to improve the productivity and economic viability of their land through the use of such practices as composting and mulching.
E-mail announcements of relevant and theme related workshops, symposiums and conferences are one of the reasons I subscribe to these networks - if I am not interested, I can delete the message without opening it and it is certainly a more enviromentally friendly and inclusive form of communication than if I had to be on a very specific Rodale or Pond and Swale-Building mail list that I probably didn't even know about. How else do you become aware of events that have a high probability of being related to your interests? It certainly was not as long a message as most of the conference and symposium announcements I receive. And they all charge fees. The lists to which it was posted (as can be noted in the header above) seem quite judiciously selected and appropriate for this announcement.
Sheryl Swink Organic gardener, composter, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, and currently a graduate student in the field of International Development at Cornell University e-mail: mailto:sns7@cornell.edu
>Please refrain from emailing unsolicited advertising in the
>future.
>
>> Rodale Institute is an independent, non-profit public charity,
>> under sections 501(c)3 and 509(a)2 of the IRS code.
>
>I still don't want to see your advertising.
>
>Sincerely,
>
mailto:>gozer@oro.net >
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