The NAYS have it.

[Tim Lohrmann <timlohr@yahoo.com>]

Well, looks like the NAYS have it on the moderation
issue once again.
Bill's comments below seem to be the most compelling
reasoning as to why this isn't a good idea.
Guess it's time to move on?
TL

--- bill london <bill_london@hotmail.com> wrote:
> From: "bill london" <bill_london@hotmail.com>
> To: psalant@moscow.com
> CC: vision2020@moscow.com
> Subject: Re: Let's talk moderation
> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 09:51:35 PST
> 
> While the concept of a V2020 list moderator is a
> tempting one (who doesn't 
> want someone to screen out all the noisy and
> demented postings  of life?), I 
> still like the idea of an unmoderated list.  For two
> primary reasons:
> 1. legal issues....As I understand it, what V2020 is
> now doing is analagous 
> to placing the soap box in London's Hyde Park. 
> V2020 is only supplying the 
> podium, and is not responsible for the message.  If
> V2020 in any way 
> selects, or censors, or moderates the messages, then
> I understand that V2020 
> (whatever that is) becomes legally responsible.  And
> can be sued for libel, 
> etc.
> 2. not me...if the list is to be moderated, who will
> do it?
> 
> I fully agree with Priscilla that some of the
> messages on this list recently 
> "should" not have appeared.  but it is just not a
> tidy world.  And I think 
> we have seen that when the subscribers let those who
> sent the offending post 
> know of their concerns, the problem resolves itself.
>  Naive, perhaps, but I 
> still have faith that we can deal with these
> problems by airing them, not 
> censoring them.
> BL

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