Address: 1 Elm House, Sussex Road, Dublin 4, Ireland. Telephone: (353 1)  660 2159.

E-mail: [email protected]

Eamonn Fingleton  promptly acknowledges correspondence from new correspondents. He suggests, however, that correspondents use an appropriate subject line (such as the headline on an article or the title of one of his books), as messages with vague subject lines may be mistaken for junk mail. He suggests that snail mail may be more appropriate for some types of correspondence, particularly where a previous e-mail message has gone unacknowledged.