On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:08:08AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Gopal Narayanan wrote: > > I have an applicant who told me a week ago that he would send his > > scanned id (he said he had a scanner even). So far no replies from > > him. How long is it considered normal to wait? Do AMs normally send > > reminders if the applicant takes a while? Just curious, because I > > realize the more time each applicant takes, somebody else is waiting > > in the queue. > > First, this is entirely up to you ;-) > > Seriously, a week is probably stretching things for something the > applicant has already said "just a minute and I'll get that to you". On > the other hand, a second ping may be all it takes to start things moving. I: email, wait a week email again, wait a week stick them in the deep freeze (on hold) with a third email.
Generally speaking, you can expect to get pretty bad response from most of your applicants (80%). My current set of 7 applicants varies from barely OK to real bad. I guess I used up my good 20% already :( I really should bounce ones who don't reply sooner. It's not like there aren't others to process. > Another way to deal with this is to take on more applicants at one time, > so the waiting is less restricting. Which is why I can do 7, no sweat. I'll probably bounce 3 of them early next week. -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>