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Re: Question #1 poll results


Art: He DID offer the option of a private E-mail.
Carole H.

--- Arthur Hirsch <epr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Kathy, I most heartily agree with you - and equally
> heartily disagree.
>
> I agree because "voting" on the list generates a lot
> of mail - which takes
> time to open and read, even if it is just the word
> "Yes" or the word "No."
> Many of your 111 messages were simply that: "Yes" or
> "No."  There is no
> reason for 1800 people to have to go through the
> "Yes" and "No" mail 40
> times or more, maybe as many as 1800 times.  And
> indeed, that's why I
> didn't answer Dr. Heitman's poll.  I would have
> answered if he had asked
> that the results go directly to him and no one else.
>
> I disagree because my answer would have been yes.
> If we have a listmember
> from the Duchy of Liechtenstein and that member
> wants the Liechtenstein
> government to spend money on Parkinson research, I
> think that this list
> should be an excellent source for help.  Our goal is
> to rid the world of
> PD.  If things political will help toward this goal,
> by all means have at it;
>
> Art
>
>
> At 08:59 PM 9/28/99 ,Kathy Whitman wrote:
> >No
> >There is so much mail now it is hard to handle all
> of it (111 messages
> >when I signed on today at about 6 PM. I had signed
> off yesterday at
> >around 4 PM). Please don't add to this with
> political information from
> >many, many people that many of us won't be voting
> for. After all most
> >candidates are not for a national officeand this is
> an international
> >list. This is not what the list is about!
> >Kathy W.
>

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