Re: The 2020 listserve: changes?

[Gary You <youngg@uidaho.edu>]

On Tues 2 June 98 Gary Young wrote:

Delete!!


On Sat, 30 May 1998, Priscilla Salant wrote:

> Tom's recent post requesting that the 2020 steering committee disallow
> gossip on the listserve made me shudder.  I had just returned from a
> marathon work trip to find 20 messages on multiple subjects in my
> mailbox and I was bleary eyed with fatigue.  Well-meaning, to be sure, Tom
> was
> asking me as a member of the steering committee to be responsible for
> something way outside my control.  The majority of people who have voiced
> an
> opinion on the subject have indicated they don't want the list moderated
> (in the way Sam's described with his horse example).  And as long as the
> list is unmoderated, no one can "disallow" anything.
> 
> Throw me head first off the steering committee if you want, but I do not
> want to be responsible for deciding what is gossip and what is truth on
> this list.  I don't even want to READ every post, let alone judge it. 
> People who don't find this listserve informative anymore have two choices
> -- unsubscribe or don't read what's written by people who offend you. I'm
> not going to filter the list for you. 
> 
> I couldn't be more delighted that people are discussing how the listserve
> should be operated.   It isn't and can't be under the control of Bill,
> Susan, and myself.   I know it's scary, but there aren't any rules other
> than those the group decides.  And, don't say it, I already understand that
> we
> don't even know who the group is or what "decide" means.  It's a new
> medium, every day's postings bring new surprises.  Sometimes things come
> so fast and furious I shut my eyes and wish it would all go away, but it
> doesn't, and I'm still on the steering committee using the listserve and
> community retreat to encourage informed thinking about Moscow's future.  
> 
> Now another issue has come up which needs "deciding" by the "group."  The
> steering committee has recently been asked by two individuals to delete
> selected postings from the archives.  Both requests were fair and I
> sympathized with the reasoning, but they are also a little hard to
> accomodate.  As a solution, Bill proposed that we delete the entire
> archives.
> 
> So, assorted folks, what do you think of that idea?
> 
> --Priscilla Salant
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