response in an appropriate manner; for example, if arsenic indeed was one of the wastes dumped, -~hen, perhaps, it should be lis:ed first. The interactions of the type we are concerned about here are all meant to aid a person in some fashion. Hence, a general characterization of all these t~/pes is a helping function. However, it is useful to distinguish the types depending on whether an information or information sharin~ interaction zs involved. C--interaction is przmarily information seeking, although some sharing interaction is involved also. This is so because information sharing facilitates information seeking, for example 2 ,.