Dear ABRF anonymous member at 129.98.40.187:
Who do you know when you sign your organ donor card (do you ask a name,
institution and a telephone number to be sent to your grave)?
Who do you know when you give a beggar at the bus station (do you ask him
for his street address and telephone number)?
Who do you know when you receive your grant proposal (or manuscript)
rejected with unfair comments (do you ask for the names and the place of
work of the reviewers)?
Who do you know when you receive a non-signed message from "Ombudsman
account for AECOM", requiring every person to give personal information to
the list (a remarkable request, because the sender himself, from
medusa.bioc.aecom.yu.edu [129.98.40.187], which is at the Department of
Biochemistry at the AECOM in New York, is not doing what he is preaching)?
The original question came from Steven E. Greer, MD, who identified himself
and gave his e-mail address sgreer@dlj.com , which is more than enough to
get a ton of information about him, to track him through his publication
list to a place right next to you in the same city, and in the same
institution, if hunting people down is what you at the "medusa" are after.
Or maybe you knew from the start who he is, but wanted to give him a lesson
that an MD from your own institution should not be asking questions that
only the Department of Biochemistry at the AECOM is entitled to ask and
answer? The fact that Dr. Greer's message was sent from
"eqexbhdny02.equities.dlj.com" at the investment firm Donaldson, Lufkin &
Jenrette, Inc. (277 Park Avenue New York, NY 10172, Ph. (212) 892-3000) may
indeed raise some brows, but again, we expect MDs and investment firms to
have something in common (of green color), and to express interest in
biotechnology.
We are not on this list to solve inter-institutional frictions, to tailor
answers based on whom somebody works for (or consults for), or to have his
phone number exposed to sequencer manufacturers' marketing departments. I
hope that we will still be able to share and receive some useful information
related to protein and nucleic acid methods and technology without giving
our street addresses and telephone numbers (social security numbers? sexual
preferences info?) to everybody else on the Internet.
Jane Carville
University of Virginia
007 James Bond Street West
Langley, VA
1-800-228-2463 (1-800-CATCHME)
-----Original Message-----
From: Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities
[mailto:abrf-request@aecom.yu.edu]On Behalf Of Ombudsman account for
AECOM
Sent: September 29, 2000 16:14
To: Recipients of ABRF List
Subject: Who do you know when you reply to a blanket question? (fwd)
Hello. Before I comment, I like to know to whom I am talking to.
Your 'signature file' information doesn't tell me who you work for,
a real mail address or telephone. Why do you need this information?
Thanks.
__________________
you wrote:
I am in the process of learning more about the various DNA sequencing
machines on the market from PE, Beckman Coulter etc. To start out, I
suppose
a request of opinions on the favored devices would be very helpful.
Personal
opinions are welcome.
* For the super high throughput machines such as the Applied
Biosystems 3700, what is the best one
* Best medium throughput
Thank you.
Steven E. Greer, MD
sgreer@dlj.com
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