On Thu, 26 Feb 1998 16:42:11 GMT Leo Enticknap <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> There are plenty of civil ways to reject a manuscript, and we are giving >> up civility, I fear. > >I know of someone who did pretty well on this. He was asked to advise on a book > proposal by a >major academic publisher and concluded that it was "fucking abysmal". These > sentiments were >set out (including the quoted phrase) in an e-mail to the commissioning editor. > Unfortunately, the >address he typed in was that of the proposal's author... Even worse: Back before Screen-L was moderated, a manuscript reviewer accidently sent a review TO THE ENTIRE LIST. Somewhat fortunately, he sent it as a file attachment to the message which made it illegible to some subscribers, but, still, several hundred Screen-L subscribers were able to read this "confidential" review. Also fortunately, it was a rather mild review. No profanity. A cautionary tale for us all: Check those e-mail addresses before hitting the SEND key! P.S. This sort of accident would probably not occur again--now that Screen-L is moderated. Hopefully, our moderator would catch something like this before it was distributed. ---- Jeremy Butler [log in to unmask] ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite Telecommunication & Film/University of Alabama/Tuscaloosa ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite