Steve, public apologies -- I missed the "offline" comment in the
subject line and I just saw it now right next to the [SHOE] in the
subject!

I guess I need to read the subject line more carefully -- I'm reading
just the body of the message and ignoring the subject. I did the same
thing to Kevin a while ago. Luckily, neither time was there anything
too damaging. Please forgive me.

Humberto (yes, Anglo nickname is Bert :-)) Barreto


On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Steve Kates <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Humberto [Bert apparently]
>
> I would just like to thank you personally for these changes and for responding to this enormous challenge as you did. I think I was the one to start this going and I personally am very appreciative of the way that this has worked itself out. Had I known how much work was involved, I think I might have kept my worries to myself. But this is such a wonderful resource to all of us which was why I wrote to you in the first place as I did. I only hope that nothing I had said was seen by you as a criticism since none was intended. I only wished to let you know how this was being experienced by at least some of us out here. The resolution, from my perspective anyway, has been perfect and I am very grateful. I am sorry that it looks less and less likely that I will get to the HES since they have now timed my exam five days before it starts (although I am trying to have the timing changed). I therefore won't get the chance to meet you on this occasion and to thank you personally, but I wish you well and will remain an attentive and interested reader of this site.
>
> With kind regards
>
> Steve
>
> Dr Steven Kates
> School of Economics, Finance
>    and Marketing
> RMIT University
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> Melbourne Vic 3000
>
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>
>
>>>> Humberto Barreto <[log in to unmask]> 30/04/2010 2:21 am >>>
> I'm guessing many of you concluded that your moderator was asleep at
> the switch and oblivious to the fact that the messages from the SHOE
> list do not appear with the word SHOE in the subject line.
>
> Actually, I have been keenly aware of this and I can provide evidence
> of the many emails I have sent to York University's tech support
> staff. To make a very long story much shorter, all of the fixes I have
> been trying work ONLY for NEW subscribers. In other words, existing
> subscribers have to manually change their options to get the word SHOE
> to appear in the subject line. Fortunately, I can bulk unsubscribe all
> of you and then resubscribe you and we will (finally!) get the word
> SHOE to appear in the subject line.
>
> This solution is not costless for some of you. Any preferences that
> you have set (such as Avi's favorite, digest mode so that he gets a
> batch of messages at one time) will be destroyed. You will have to
> reset those preferences. My thinking on this is that those subscribers
> savvy enough to have set preferences before can do so again. The link
> to set preferences is here
>
> https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa
>
> So, I hope this ends the saga of the recent changes to the SHOE list.
> Please remember that, going forward, I will not be editing messages so
> I would encourage you to self-edit: choose an informative, short
> subject line, remove all unnecessary trails of quoted text from
> previous messages, and proofread your message before sending. If you
> are a gmail user, be aware that while it suppresses the quoted text on
> your screen, it's still in the message and you should remove it. The
> archive will be messier from now on, but you convinced me that the
> benefits of having the message come from the original sender is worth
> that cost. FYI, the archive is here:
>
> https://listserv.yorku.ca/archives/shoe.html
>
> I will subscribe and unsubscribe everyone after I send this message --
> a process that should be unnoticeable to you. For all future messages,
> I expect the subject line to have "[SHOE]" inserted automatically by
> the list software. The vast majority of you need do nothing -- for the
> few of you that had digest mode or other preferences, please use the
> link above to reset those preferences. if you have any trouble, please
> let me know.
>
> I hope to see you at the HES meetings in Syracuse,
>
> Humberto Barreto
>



-- 
Humberto Barreto
Elizabeth P. Allen Distinguished University Professor
Dept. of Economics & Management
DePauw University
Greencastle, IN 46135

765-658-4531

www.depauw.edu/learn/microexcel