wrc@tcfir.org wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
I am troubled that I cannot email other members directly as I see fit...
And just what is stopping you from doing this? If you have an email address, as you would if the person has posted something of interest to you on the list, you may certainly respond to that person with a personal email note rather than as a posting on the list (just as this note is being sent both as a personal note as well as to the list). If someone has posted a paper or other material on the website, there is generally contact information with it, unless the person posting has intentionally suppressed it. But if your intent is simply to send email randomly to AoIR members rather than responding to specific issues or scholarship, well yes, that's spam, and you can keep it to yourself, thank you very much. Frankly, I don't see an issue here. -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa http://academic.luther.edu/~johnsmar/ ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain