Hi, and thanks for the intervention! :) This is the first bit of rational and non-confrontational communication relating to advertising I've received thus far and appreciate this very much Marvin. I'll respectfully honor the intention of histonet. Had I been approached with respect and asked nicely I would gladly oblige. You know what they say about catching more flies with honey...
Now back to our regularly scheduled histology programming. On Oct 3, 2012, at 2:16 AM, Marvin Hanna <mha...@histosearch.com> wrote: > Hi Histocare and any other relatively new people to Histonet, > > First, hello from Bill and I in beautiful Vancouver and NSH where many > histologists are enjoying old friends and making new friends from around the > world. Let's remember histology is still a pretty small field in the US with > about 25,000 histologists working in about 7,000 labs, plus more and more > working in research labs and companies. Over a career, you're likely to > meet many of them if you come to enough NSHs. For those of us who have been > on Histonet since the beginning (1996?), we would like to remind others of > the facts of Histonet: > > The Histonet listserver is an email listserver for the histology > profession that is managed by Dr. Margraf and Dr. Cope-Yokoyama and is run on > computers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. University > policies prohibit advertising, but do allow posting of jobs, probably so > everybody can dream about being a histologist in some distant place. There > are even some temp positions and jobs wanted emails posted every now and then. > > Histocare, your first posting was no problem and we enjoy seeing all the ways > histologists use to market their talents. Three posts in one week is a little > redundant. We got it the first time. > > Companies (Vendors) are permitted to post in response to problems of labs > when they have something positive to contribute. Histonet currently has more > than 4000 members from throughout the world, with many thousands more who > keep up with it through the archives. The archives have over 30,000 visits a > month from over 50 different countries. > > We all want to read questions and answers about problems in histology. Many > of us remember before Histonet when labs had to actually solve their problems > by themselves. Now over 30,000 times a month a histology problem is solved by > one of the eloquent answers of contributors to Histonet. > > And Histocare, you can be anonymous on Histonet if you like, but you might > want to search the archives for others opinions on it. It has been discussed > previously. And when you have a website, you can’t be anonymous, because I > was able to do a whois search and get your name and address. I would > recommend using your name and credentials proudly. > > So, let’s get back to solving histology problems on Histonet and leave Dr. > Margraf and Dr. Cope-Yokoyama alone. They have patients and stuff they’re > working on. Just remember to treat others in your profession with respect on > Histonet. You just might meet them one day at NSH. And remember to think > twice (or three times) before hitting the send button with a negative > message. Thousands of us really don’t want to hear it. > > Histonet welcomes all histology questions and a vast majority of the > participants think if you don’t know the answer, it’s not a dumb question, so > feel free to ask. Those that don’t think so will flame you mercilessly off > list for posting, but I recommend you ignore them. > > A little research in the archives shows me that 94% of the time an email war > breaks out on Histonet, testosterone is involved… > > Respectfully, > > Marvin Hanna > webmas...@histosearch.com _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
