“Disaster is we only get 250 and they ended up getting 400.”

The e-mails are below.

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date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 12:38:42 +0100

from: Rob Swart

subject: Re: addresses

to: Mike Hulme

Mike,

Let’s go for the numbers! I will check Norwegian and Greek names with the

NRP secretariat and try to find a way to get the email-addresses in addition

to the surface mail addresses.

Rob

At 09:37 AM 10/14/97 +0100, you wrote:

>Joe and Rob,

>

>We currently have 497 email addresses in our database, with another

>few dozen to go. The ranking is as follows:

>

>UK 119

>Neth 105

>Germany 79

>France 34

>Italy 19

>Unidentified 19

>Spain 16

>Switz 16

>Sweden 15

>Poland 10

>Portugal 10

>Belgium 9

>Finland 9

>

>plus others 37

>

>I think we especially need more contacts for Greeks (1) and Norway (1). Any

>suggestions?? I am not including people with fax numbers only since this

>becomes

>to messy and time-consuming for us.

>

>Joe and Rob – you seem to have contrasting views about the inclusivity of this

>process. Joe going for quantity and Rob for quality. How do we reconcile?

> There

>are arguments both ways, but I think I tend to go for quantity (we avoid

>having

>to act as judge of competence and we safeguard ourselves against the skeptics

>getting a similar letter with alternate views signed by more scientists

>than us!!

>Disaster is we only get 250 and they ended up getting 400. In this sense the

>media are only interested in numbers.

>

>What do you both think?

>

>About timing … Joe, we are partly in the hands of WWF here. They are

>putting

>money up to organise this and make sure the press come along and their view

>at

>present is late Nov. I will wait for their formal response, but I’m

>inclined to

>take their advice on this. They are the experts here ….

>

>Would it help to email you our Excel file with all the addresses in for you

>to fill in any obvious personal omissions?

>

>Mike

>

>

>

>

>

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