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From: Joe Makowiec <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Appropriate Source Usage
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 09:36:10 -0400
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At 08:58 AM 6-30-2002 -0700, Bruce Sohn wrote:
>While I acknowledge that TMG permits many ways to
>handle data, I would apprecite if you would comment on
>the most appropriate use of sources as illustrated in
>the following examples:

<snip several categories>

>Do these sound about right? Thanks for input.

Well, yes and no, but don't quote me.

More specifically - it depends on a number of factors: how much information
I have from a specific person/source; how interested I am in the person or
people I'm using the source for; how I want the source to print out in reports.

I usually prefer granularity, which is to say dividing the information as
small as possible. I have two types of e-mail source, one for individual
messages and one for exchanges where I have kept up a running conversation
on a specific topic. For example, the e-mail from proud papa announcing
the birth of a new grandnephew got put in a single e-mail
category. However, I've had a running correspondence with a cousin about a
family we share, and those all go into a single source.



Joe
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