Hi all, Just wanted to say Welcome to all ournew members. First, I apologize about lack of spaces here and there in my text, one of my goats got in the house...
Nancy, I thought I had mentioned it in the beginning to my group of volunteer indexers (and I will send them a reminder), but while I usually make a small ...
Charles, I guess I was unaware of this free service while I was a member of the list. I see it as a wonderful offer and hope the list members take you up on...
Welcome to the Indexer's Discussion List. The purpose of this list is to provide a forum for discussing the creation of indexes, psychological issues of being...
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Hi all, I just had to do something that I haven't done at all during my indexing career - I had to turn down a job! I hated doing it, but I also loved the ...
... Just curious--do you mean that the editor is a subscriber to this list? If not, how would an editor get an indexer from the list? Charles R. Anderson PO...
A member of this list had to offer a job to list members, as they couldn't take it on. I responded to the job, and was put on a freelance list at the ...
Hey Bobbi, that isn't OT, and congratulations. That does definitely make you feel you've arrived. I just this minute had a first as well, an editor sent me an...
Nancy, One thing about marketing is that you may have to stick with it for quite a while. I worked on finding names and sending out marketing packages for 6 ...
Thanks Charles, Rae, and others, for the support! Indexers are great, and indexing is the best profession to be in! For the newbies out there, I have only...
Way to go Bobbi! I remember the first time I had to turn down work. I was so nervous that they wouldn't contact me again. Of course, the client understood I...
... Well, actually it feels more like estimated taxes money, and a huge relief that I will actually have it to send. LOL R -- Rachel Rice, MA Freelance...
Almost the same thing???!!!! ... From: "Rae" <racric@...> To: <indexersdiscussionlist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 3:27 PM Subject: Re:...
Has anyone ever come up with a good way to indicate that a topic is scattered thoughout a range of pages? I have a discussion that's about Clinton's handling...
I too wish to welcome all the new members, this is a great place to be! Watch out for the list owner though, she runs with animals (pun intended). Bobbi ... ...
Sounds like 176-193_passim_ to me. Perhaps with a note in the heading such as '_passim_ denotes that the references are scattered throughout the pages...
... Haven't asked. darn thing is due tomorrow, too late to ask now. Hate being fried on deadline. I don't think this particular publisher will want it used. ...
I was so nervous about not only turning down the job, but how to do it in an email message in such a way as to not discourage him from contacting me again. I...
Pol Pot or Pot, Pol which appears very bizarre. Does one ever use his original (birth) name? which I would have to look up becaue I can't remember it? Ooooh...
Rae, It's "Pol Pot." I've never seen it any other way and I can't imagine anyone looking it up any other way. Don't be concerned if it is not his birth name....
Pol Pot AKA 'Brother Number One'. Birth name Saloth Sar. Country: Cambodia. Kill tally: One to three million (or between a quarter and a third of the country's...
I shouldn't have said that this is all I could find on Pol Pot, I should have said that this is all I could find out about his name! There are tons of pages...
He's nothing compared to some others profiled in this book. Although he is right up there. Not a book for the squeamish. THanks for lookign him up for me. I...
I'm curious, Rachel, about what the book is about in general. Sounds like one of those multinational challenges I welcome as an editor but have encountered ...
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'.....Saloth Sar went to France on a KingÕs scholarship to study radio electricity; instead he became a member of the Communist Party of France. When he...
... It's a book about some of the really bad (not nec. evil nor even bad people, and not nec. presidents or dictators, also people like Martha Stewart and Bill...
Rae, According to the Library of Congress authority list, he is Pol Pot with no inversion. Also, the HURIDOCS (Human Rights Monitoring and Documentation...
Nora: HURIDOCS sounds like a valuable resource! Can you tell us where to find it online? Thanks. Meg [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
