[OWW-SC] Fwd: [Oww-Feedback] Feedback Message (from Dr Alejo Corrales)

[Jason Kelly]

I think we might want to tread carefully on this one.  i assume this
researcher's (Dr. Berglund) contact info is available through his
school somehow...could suggest the person who emailed check there.

i wouldn't recommend to the person who emailed that he get an OWW
account and then start posting on talk pages or anything.  we need to
be a little protective of community, i think.  This guy isn't a
biologist or biological engineer doing research -- he's looking for
medical advice.  And there are much better places for him to find
that.

Austin, I'm against the email form for users.  If someone wants to get
random emails, they'll post their contact info.  We already allow
within-OWW form emailing, which I think covers most bases.  Having a
pre-requisite of signing up to OWW being that everyone on the internet
gets to know your email address (even if it's through a form) is too
much to ask, IMO.

thanks,
jason

On Jan 18, 2008 9:56 PM,  <julius at younglucks.com> wrote:
> What about the content of emails being sent to the user talk page
> instead of emailing them?  Either way, we may run into a spam issue.
> We also might allow anyone to edit a user talk page for messaging as
> an alternative.
>
> In any case, I will email the 1st feedback user with instructions on
> how to contact an individual user.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Julius
>
>
> Quoting Austin Che <austin at csail.mit.edu>:
>
> >
> >     I think we need a way for anyone to email someone on the wiki. For
> >     example, make this work for non-logged in users.
> >     http://openwetware.org/wiki/Special:Emailuser/Austin_J._Che
> >
> >     Or allow the creation of the feedback forms that send to arbitrary
> >     email addresses from the wiki.
> >
> >     Looking around the Berglund lab page, I couldn't find any other
> >     way of contacting them.
> >
> >> Apparently we need a statement similar to this one in the Pubmed FAQ:
> >> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/faq.html
> >>
> >> On Jan 18, 2008, at 6:46 PM, Bill F wrote:
> >>
> >> We have our first feedback message. I can't figure out what to do with
> >> it so you folks can decide.
> >
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> > Austin Che           <austin at csail.mit.edu>          (617)253-5899
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