Re: Archiving the Good, Bad and Ugly

["bill london" <bill_london@hotmail.com>]

A few years ago, the V2020 list was bubbling with a contraversy about a 
series of postings from 2 subscribers accusing a local judge and attorney 
(by name) of a variety of illegal acts.  At that point, those postings were 
archived with all the others.
The steering committee for V2020 (of which I was a member) recommended that 
the entire archives, containing those postings (which certainly could have 
been considered libelous), be eliminated.  This recommendation was made in 
response to a demand from the attorney involved that the postings relevant 
to the accusations about him be purged.  We did not want to take 
responsibility to manage/control the archives, so we decided to ask the 
members to eliminate them.
The response from the V2020 membership was clear.   Most V2020 subscribers 
wanted to retain the archives--primarily as a historical record and a way to 
follow the threads of conversations backward.  So, they remain.  And that is 
the purpose of the archives, as I see them.
BL

>From: G M <herecomestheflood@yahoo.com>
>To: Vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com>
>Subject: Archiving the Good, Bad and Ugly
>Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 12:12:58 -0800 (PST)
>
>Tried sending this earlier but it failed to go
>through.  Apologies if it shows up twice.
>
>
>
>Ann McMillan <mcmillan@uidaho.edu> wrote:
> >     I agree with another's comment that foul
> > language does not need to be used on this or any
> > other list.  It is offensive to me.
>******************************************
>
>So do we really want all V2020 messages archived and
>posted at the "Welcome to Moscow" website?  Complete
>with expletives, graphic descriptions et al...
>
>And, for that matter, what purpose are the archives
>really serving?
>
>
>
>Mr. X
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