The email address for Berglund, the intended recipient, is available on his website. That website appears in the Google search results list as number 3 on the list of results for his own lab. OpenWetWare is listed as number 1 and 2. This won't be the last time someone considers us a definitive source for getting connected to another person.
<br><br>In Dec, 2007, Berglund published an article in RNA Journal that may be the reason the emailer is trying to reach out to him. The name of the emailer appears on the speakers list of 2 medical conferences in his location.
<br><br>We should make a policy about this. I agree. But I would advise routing the message to its intended recipient. I can provide the email address information if needed.<br><br>B.<br><br><br><br>On Jan 18, 2008 10:11 PM, Jason Kelly <
<a href="mailto:jasonk@mit.edu">jasonk@mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I think we might want to tread carefully on this one. i assume this
<br>researcher's (Dr. Berglund) contact info is available through his<br>school somehow...could suggest the person who emailed check there.<br><br>i wouldn't recommend to the person who emailed that he get an OWW<br>
account and then start posting on talk pages or anything. we need to<br>be a little protective of community, i think. This guy isn't a<br>biologist or biological engineer doing research -- he's looking for<br>medical advice. And there are much better places for him to find
<br>that.<br><br>Austin, I'm against the email form for users. If someone wants to get<br>random emails, they'll post their contact info. We already allow<br>within-OWW form emailing, which I think covers most bases. Having a
<br>pre-requisite of signing up to OWW being that everyone on the internet<br>gets to know your email address (even if it's through a form) is too<br>much to ask, IMO.<br><br>thanks,<br><font color="#888888">jason<br>
</font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>On Jan 18, 2008 9:56 PM, <<a href="mailto:julius@younglucks.com">julius@younglucks.com</a>> wrote:<br>> What about the content of emails being sent to the user talk page
<br>> instead of emailing them? Either way, we may run into a spam issue.<br>> We also might allow anyone to edit a user talk page for messaging as<br>> an alternative.<br>><br>> In any case, I will email the 1st feedback user with instructions on
<br>> how to contact an individual user.<br>><br>> Cheers,<br>><br>> Julius<br>><br>><br>> Quoting Austin Che <<a href="mailto:austin@csail.mit.edu">austin@csail.mit.edu</a>>:<br>><br>> >
<br>> > I think we need a way for anyone to email someone on the wiki. For<br>> > example, make this work for non-logged in users.<br>> > <a href="http://openwetware.org/wiki/Special:Emailuser/Austin_J._Che" target="_blank">
http://openwetware.org/wiki/Special:Emailuser/Austin_J._Che</a><br>> ><br>> > Or allow the creation of the feedback forms that send to arbitrary<br>> > email addresses from the wiki.<br>> >
<br>> > Looking around the Berglund lab page, I couldn't find any other<br>> > way of contacting them.<br>> ><br>> >> Apparently we need a statement similar to this one in the Pubmed FAQ:
<br>> >> <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/faq.html" target="_blank">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/faq.html</a><br>> >><br>> >> On Jan 18, 2008, at 6:46 PM, Bill F wrote:
<br>> >><br>> >> We have our first feedback message. I can't figure out what to do with<br>> >> it so you folks can decide.<br>> ><br>> > --<br>> > Austin Che <
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