Where have all the reviewers gone

[Curtis]

Just to flog a dead horse, I am returning to Marcus' comment on writing under a female pseudonym to increase your e-mail response from readers.

I have now sent e-mails or PMs to 13 pseudonymously male authors and received replies from 5. On the other hand, I have contacted 19 ostensibly female authors and received replies from 16, six of whom have entered into prolonged exchanges (vs one of the males).

I realize that this study sample is minute, but as it grows the results are remaining consistent. This tends to confirm my earlier hypothesis that the reason women receive more e-mails is that people are more likely to write to people who will write back to them.

(Aside to Faibhar: Trying to keep up with your allusions is exercising my faculties. It took me days to realize that your remark concerning lyrics from the 1960's was directed at me! The subject line of that post was, of course, a response to the Thread subject line. But then, you knew that <wink>.)