New specific, simplified list of ARN e-mail addresses

If you were out of town last week for spring break, perhaps you missed the list of new e-mail addresses here at the Reporter-News.

The new address for sending letters to the editor from your home computer is:

letter@abinews.com

As with all letters to the editor, e-mail letters must include the writer's name, street address and phone number, and they must be 250 words or less. Many word processing programs are equipped to count your words for you and eliminate the guesswork.

Of course, we still accept letters sent the "old-fashioned" way to Letters to the Editor, Abilene Reporter-News, P.O. Box 30, Abilene, TX 79604, or to our fax number at (915) 673-1901.

We hope streamlining our e-mail procedures will enable more readers to contribute to our letters column and allow us to print those responses with less delay.

Besides changing the e-mail address for letters, we've added new e-mail addresses for various news departments. Those are:

City desk - citydesk@abinews.com

Business news - biznews@abinews.com

Sports - sport@abinews.com

Life news - lifenews@abinews.com

The Abilenian - abilene@abinews.com

School news - schools@abinews.com

Birthdays - birthday@abinews.com

Photography - photo@abinews.com

Obituaries - obits@abinews.com

In addition, these individuals also have e-mail addresses:

Glenn Dromgoole, editor - glennd@abinews.com

Carol Lackey, senior editor/features - caroll@abinews.com

Al Pickett, senior editor/sports - alp@abinews.com

Doug Williamson, senior editor/business - dougw@abinews.com

Jeff Wolf, senior editor/editorial page - jeffw@abinews.com

Larry Zelisko, senior editor/news - larryz@abinews.com

Bill Whitaker, columnist - billw@abinews.com

Plus, for those of you who check out the paper's home page on the Internet, we have an address specifically designated for your feedback regarding what you might read there. It is:

comment@abinews.com

We hope these new e-mail addresses will give readers easier access to the people at the Reporter-News with whom they need to communicate and, in turn, enable us to put out a more responsive newspaper.