Re: [Air-l] writing effective questions to lists

Barry Wellman wrote:

... My quick guide is:

1. Be specific as to content and need.

2. Lurk on the list for a while to get a sense of its style.

3. Try to post something else first, so that you are contributing as well as asking for information. ...

Shouldn't the order here be 2, 3, 1 ??? -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA http://academic.luther.edu/~johnsmar/ ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain