Today, the effort started over two years ago to encourage folks to write
letters to the editor (LTE) reached another milestone. The value of the
contribution made by published letters (PUB LTE), from web page above:

Estimated Ad Value

Year Letters Value
1996 105 $104,895.00
1997 396 $395,604.00
1998 521 $520,479.00

Total 1022 $1,020,978.00

To see how this value is obtained, go to:
http://www.mapinc.org/lte/value.htm

Since the lists of folks who participate in MAP/Drugsense, to include
receiving the news by email, is private and unavailable to the staff and
board of directors of MAP/DrugSense, we suspect that there are a few
letters shown from folks that do not use our services, and perhaps have
never even heard of us. But the large majority of published letters shown
are from folks who use our services.

But we also suspect that there are an even larger number of PUB LTEs out
there that have never reached our web pages.

If YOU or someone you know has been published in the past two years, and
the PUB LTE is not in our web page archives, please send it to me directly
so I can get it where it needs to go. Please use the same format for
showing the source and pubdate as shown at:

http://www.mapinc.org/hawk.htm

Thank you, each and every one of you, who send LTEs to the media.

And a special Thank You to Ashley Clements who maintains the Published
Letters Archive pages.

Richard Lake
Senior Editor; MAPnews, MAPnews-Digest and DrugNews-Digest
email: rlake@DrugSense.org
http://www.DrugSense.org/drugnews/
For subscription information see:
http://www.MAPinc.org/lists/
Quick sign up for DrugNews-Digest, Focus Alerts or Newsletter:
http://www.DrugSense.org/hurry.htm

Checked-by: Richard Lake