Re: San Bals islands
Shelly E Errington (sherring@cats.ucsc.edu)
Sat, 8 Apr 1995 09:32:18 -0500
A few months ago I joined this list and find it on the whole useful,
interesting, and informative. I am annoyed, however, by what appears to
be requests from students doing papers on this and that who have seem to
want to use the list as a substitute for their library's card catalogue
(or electronic equivalent), apparently with the hope that some expert
will do their basic research for them. I am not talking here about, e.g.,
the graduate student from Flinders University in Australia who informed
the list of his research project; that is a useful function of the
list--to inform people of who's doing research on what and where. But the
sort of interchange illustrated below is the kind of thing that clutters
up an email box. (I presume Robert Harding is gently chiding the
requester, but maybe not; in any case, the requester may not realize it.)
---Shelly Errington, Board of Anthropology, U.C. Santa Cruz
On
Fri, 7 Apr 1995 i586bi6m@umiami.ir.miami.edu wrote:
> What would you like to know?
>
> Robert Harding
> Graduate School of International Studies
> University of Miami
>
> On Fri, 7 Apr 1995, Administrative Services wrote:
>
> > I am looking for information on the San Bals islands off the
> > coast of Panama and the native people there.
> >
>