Guest guest Posted June 9, 2001 Report Share Posted June 9, 2001 I appreciate your thoughtful note. I have refelected on most of those ideas myself. As a solution, I have decided to rewrite my invitation to PLS-Friends people and always to follow it with my essay on PLS. This is an information filled document and will tell people much about me and PLS. Subscribers have seen it already. It is copyrighted and will be intended only for the person receiving it and is not to be posted on PLS-Friends. Hopefully, receivers will accept this request. Since new subscribers will have my postal address, I see no reason why I cannot have theirs. I use it to tabulate the geographic incidence of PLS and to inform people of other PLS-people, who may live nearby. If, after reading this, PLS-Friends who have previously rejected my offer and would like to reinvestigate the " PLS-Newsletter " may simply request my PLS essay by e-mail (73112.611@...). If, after reading it, they would like to subscribe, they have only to let me know. My best to you and to everyone else, Levy, Ph.D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 9, 2001 Report Share Posted June 9, 2001 Dear Mr Levy I was so glad to here from you. Please send me any and all information that you may have on pls as my husband has been diagnosed with it. plplease let me know if there is anyone in the detroit Michigan area that you know have the pls I would love to speak to them also Thank You shirley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 12, 2001 Report Share Posted June 12, 2001 I have tried to subscribe but probably I am not a good pc-user and haven't managed yet, but if you give me the directions on how to, I'd be glad to read you. Cecilie Schippa Italy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 31, 2001 Report Share Posted August 31, 2001 I am still very disturbed about how many PLS-Friends ignore my invitation to be a subscriber to the " PLS Newsletter. " Perhaps it is because you take Mark Weber's comments about Helmut Prahl, Ph.D. seriously and object to my including information about him and from his many successes in our newsletter. If you don't want to read this material, fine; there is much more useful information included within its pages that is important to PLS people. Those who have rejected my invitations in the past, please reconsider. Remember, Mark is a subscriber; why should he have information not available to you? Please remember to include your postal address, even though I will send all material by e-mail. If, after receiving it for awhile you find it is not to your taste, let me know and I'll remove your name. My best to all, Levy (73112.611@...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 1, 2001 Report Share Posted September 1, 2001 L, I think it has more to do with your insistence on getting a mailing address, even though you send info by email, rather than anything Mark Weber has said. Most of those new to the group have never even heard of the Prahl issue on this list. Your explanation of why you need addresses is not very convincing, one must wonder what you really do with them. If it were for data collection, why not just ask for a city and state? The question remains, do you give the information you collect to Dr. Prahl? If not, where does this information go? Nobody that I know of has ever seen anything related to PLS data in your newsletter or anywhere else. So why do you need the information? Most people are leary of giving personal information to strangers, and have been warned about this, especially on the internet. I can't blame anyone for being cautious about giving out their address to someone they don't know. And the fact that you give yours doesn't mean that they should be comfortable with giving theirs. I think if you would just address the issue of the addresses satisfactorily, you would have more success in getting people to subscribe to your newsletter. I'm not really sure why it is that important to you anyway. To simply let the PLS list know that it is available on a regular basis should be enough. If people want to subscribe, then they will. If not, you can't force them, why would you want to? I have to wonder if you have a hidden agenda. By the way, for those of you that are interested, I get the newsletter and enjoy it very much. This is in no way a criticism of the Newsletter. Thomson --- Levy wrote: > I am still very disturbed about how many PLS-Friends > ignore my > invitation to be a subscriber to the " PLS > Newsletter. " Perhaps > it is because you take Mark Weber's comments about > Helmut Prahl, > Ph.D. seriously and object to my including > information about him > and from his many successes in our newsletter. If > you don't want > to read this material, fine; there is much more > useful > information included within its pages that is > important to PLS > people. Those who have rejected my invitations in > the past, > please reconsider. Remember, Mark is a subscriber; > why should he > have information not available to you? Please > remember to include your > postal address, even though I will send all > material by e-mail. If, > after receiving it for awhile you find it is not to > your taste, > let me know and I'll remove your name. > > My best to all, Levy > (73112.611@...) > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 1, 2001 Report Share Posted September 1, 2001 I was going to let this go but since broke the ice, I will put in my 2 cents with a somewhat different take. I don't think has any devious plan for personal information. I also don't think it has anything to do with Prahl or Mark Weber. just has a PR problem. Back in the old days, Levy had the market cornered on PLS advice and information. We are all grateful to him for that pioneering work. But now with the internet, PLS -Friends, Synapse, Reyerse and 's websites, there are many places to go for information. , you are in competition for eyeballs just like Time and Newsweek. But Time and Newsweek aren't in the habit of berating their potential customers. With the opening sentence of the message you have repeated half a dozen times, you use words like " disappointed " and " ignored " as if you were the teacher/father and we are all misbehaving students/children. I think that Advertising 101 would tell you that's not the way to attract customers. The " cod liver oil " approach is apparently not working. You might think of more positive reasons to get people to read the Newsletter instead of speculating on why they are not doing so. Just a thought. PLS Newsletter > I am still very disturbed about how many PLS-Friends ignore my > invitation to be a subscriber to the " PLS Newsletter. " Perhaps > it is because you take Mark Weber's comments about Helmut Prahl, > Ph.D. seriously and object to my including information about him > and from his many successes in our newsletter. If you don't want > to read this material, fine; there is much more useful > information included within its pages that is important to PLS > people. Those who have rejected my invitations in the past, > please reconsider. Remember, Mark is a subscriber; why should he > have information not available to you? Please remember to include your > postal address, even though I will send all material by e-mail. If, > after receiving it for awhile you find it is not to your taste, > let me know and I'll remove your name. > > My best to all, Levy (73112.611@...) > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 1, 2001 Report Share Posted September 1, 2001 , I think you are probably right, what you say makes a lot of sense. Wish I'd thought of that! --- Glassman wrote: > I was going to let this go but since broke > the ice, I will put in > my 2 cents with a somewhat different take. > > I don't think has any devious plan for > personal information. I also > don't think it has anything to do with Prahl or Mark > Weber. just has > a PR problem. > > Back in the old days, Levy had the market > cornered on PLS advice and > information. We are all grateful to him for that > pioneering work. But now > with the internet, PLS -Friends, Synapse, > Reyerse and 's > websites, there are many places to go for > information. , you are in > competition for eyeballs just like Time and > Newsweek. But Time and Newsweek > aren't in the habit of berating their potential > customers. > > With the opening sentence of the message you have > repeated half a dozen > times, you use words like " disappointed " and > " ignored " as if you were the > teacher/father and we are all misbehaving > students/children. I think that > Advertising 101 would tell you that's not the way to > attract customers. The > " cod liver oil " approach is apparently not working. > You might think of more > positive reasons to get people to read the > Newsletter instead of speculating > on why they are not doing so. > > Just a thought. > > PLS Newsletter > > > > I am still very disturbed about how many > PLS-Friends ignore my > > invitation to be a subscriber to the " PLS > Newsletter. " Perhaps > > it is because you take Mark Weber's comments about > Helmut Prahl, > > Ph.D. seriously and object to my including > information about him > > and from his many successes in our newsletter. If > you don't want > > to read this material, fine; there is much more > useful > > information included within its pages that is > important to PLS > > people. Those who have rejected my invitations in > the past, > > please reconsider. Remember, Mark is a > subscriber; why should he > > have information not available to you? Please > remember to include your > > postal address, even though I will send all > material by e-mail. If, > > after receiving it for awhile you find it is not > to your taste, > > let me know and I'll remove your name. > > > > My best to all, Levy > (73112.611@...) > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 2, 2001 Report Share Posted September 2, 2001 Levy, I hope you take our comments as they are intended, constructive and not a personal attack. Speaking for my self, every time you post your pleas for subscribing and contributing to the PLS newsletter I feel you are chastising me not inviting me to share in its contents. I probably resent the tone even more because I do subscribe to it and have contributed to it in the past. I have found it informative and have been receiving it for 4 yrs. now. I agree with the replys regarding your posting, especially the point that; Why is it necessary to bring up Helmut Prahl and Mark Weber if you are appealing on behalf of the PLS newsletter? It suggests that the newsletter is connected to them and their causes. Perhaps you are unaware of its scolding tone, but it sounds more like a rumble than an invite, and we have a format for that. I have been known to contribute to that. Sincerely, Dixon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You are posting as a guest. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.