Conference 7.286::digital

Are you simply suffering from a general change in
service, or was this action specifically directed at
the Employee Activities list?

If it's part of a general policy about reducing the
amount of scattershot email that gets sent out, then
I'm afraid I applaud.  I get too much junk as it is 
(where 'junk' is obviously subjective; one man's junk
 may be another man's invaluable information).  

So it seems entirely reasonable to me that people who
want to hear about Employee Activities should sign
up for the list.  Assuming, of course, that (a) they
all know they must sign up (b) they all know *how* to
sign up.

There's no excuse for the bit about the system
not working correctly, though.

I was an initial detractor to Readers Choice, but it has come a LONG way.
I prefer to only be inundated with what I choose and not be on a mailing
list.

That said, Readers Choice works pretty well and I suspect you're having an
isolated problem.  I'd suggest you contact someone in Kathleen Warner's
corporate communications organization.  The person responsible for Reader's
Choice works for Kathleen.  Can't remember her name, but she's very helpful
and conscientious.

j.

At first I didn't subscribe to anything from the
nameless entities.  Then, I discovered I suffered
from what one of my colleagues called "terminal 
beep envy" as my cubemates got MAIL, one by one, 
from these entities and I did not.  So I subscribed 
to some, and, as before, some of it is not useful
to me and some of it is.

I did not know I could sign up for employee activities
in my area.  I do not know how I could sign up for
employee activities in my area.  Actually, the area
I work in is very different from the area I live in.

I doubt if I could remember instructions to enroll
for the information, should I choose to accept it,
since I already have trouble accessing VTX, the 
information repository, and the web.  I meticulously
copied down the web site (and it was *very* long)
for the web site that presumably would have shown me
some magazine's article about "Palmer Takes Big Risk",
or some such. (I can remember how to use NOTES -- so
far...)   But the web simplely let me watch the
world turn for endless minutes and I finally gave up.

Yah, I miss the old days. I know they'll never come
back, but I'm sorry, .0, that it hurts.

    The user interface to VTX, and by that I mean both the actual
    interface and figuring out how to find what you want to access
    via VTX is probably the worst I've ever seen.  It's beyond me
    why we can't do better than this.
    

                                            For more information, contact:
                                            Program Office,     DTN 244-7023 OR
                                            SALES::READERCHOICE   (508)264-7023


Or if you get past the badge number and affiliations screens, one of the 
7 options is "Provide Feedback".

j.

    I'm with .0 on te VTX instructions, I can't get VTX to do what I hope
    it can do.  As for WWW access, its a rumour nothing more.   Compuserve
    is expensive but it works, if the web is your thing that is.
    
    My junk mail tends to come from being on three of four distribution
    lists for techie mails, unfortunetly if I ask to be removed from one
    there is a real possiblility of missing something important.
     
    How about the self destroying E-mail to help clean up?  Put an expiry
    date on an E-mail and it deletes itself.  All these "the coffee machine
    by reception will be off for two hours" can go die when the machine is
    fixed. 
    
    Here's looking forward to the VTX GUI  ;)
    
    R. Michael

    To all those complaining about VTX, have you tried the latest VTX
    windows client, (now called Teamlinks Library Services Version 2.5 
    just to confuse people even more)
    
    Many times what you think is wrong with VTX is really the fault of a
    poorly designed VTX infobase.  And - what version of VTX is your system
    running?  It's up to Version 6.2.
    
    Gita