Subject: Re: final _equal update_
   Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 10:29:36 -0500
   From: "NASA agency"
>Marc,>
>Do you know about this one [final _equal update_] ?
>>Glenn


Dear Glenn, et.al.,
I regret that I receive far too many unsolicited submissions than I can
review - more than I can even read.

If Raymond Dickenson was one of them, I cannot recall it.

Since the beginning of this year, I've had over 180 unsolicited e-mail
submissions, a forgotten number of phone calls, and an uncounted number of
paper-mailed items (3+1/2 inch tall stack and growing); all unsolicited,
and all beyond my time to review and respond to.  I'm guessing that this
equates to about 60 submissions each month.  Keep in mind that this is in
addition to the normal correspondence that I must conduct to run the BPP
project.

Given that it can take between 2-hours to 3-days to read, assess, and
prepare a response to such unsolicited submissions, I estimate that I would
need a full-time staff of about 3 people to keep up with this magnitude of
correspondence.  As you know, I do not have that.

To address this problem within the limits of my current and planned
resources, I am planning to create an electronic submission and evaluation
database, accessible over the internet.  I will pattern it after the
evaluation form used in our NRA solicitation.  When I am able to accept
submissions, I will put a call on the Project website.  The absolute
earliest that such might happen is the Fall of this year, after I've had
the assistance of a summer student to help me set up this database.

By the way, last year, my volunteers and myself reviewed over 100 proposals
and manuscripts that were solicited.

That is my situation.
Marc

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