March 2002 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

" ) ") ") "/ "0
by Lachlan Brown 07 Mar '02

07 Mar '02

I think the list is functioning marvellously as an Internet list under close scrutiny, very close scrutiny, by an international academic (and a global religious) scholarly community not used to the world of distributed electronic media and communications. Except, of course, for all of the 'displacement threads', though they are kind of interesting... I see someone in Waterloo Ontario, possibly of baptist leanings (?), has come up with the expression 'brain fart' for freedom of expression and a new, if possibly contingent, list of rules. Lets keep those Catholics out, eh? Quick, a new list of rules before we get any of that excessive, sensual, Latin Baroque appears. Please address the issues at hand, regarding Ethics and the Law. I see no personal attacks in this list. Nor do I see any 'spam'. Lachlan Brown -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Travelocity.com is giving away two million travel miles. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;3969773;6991039;g?http://svc.travelocity.com/…

1 0

RE: [Air-l] The Dire State of the AoIR List
by Steve Fox (NLG) 07 Mar '02

07 Mar '02

Sorry this was not meant for wider distribution. I have recalled, but delete otherwise. -----Original Message----- From: Steve Fox (NLG) [mailto:stevef@microsoft.com] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 10:31 AM To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: RE: [Air-l] The Dire State of the AoIR List Nice post...BTWE, where's the class today? I left the little slip of paper at home. Thx, Steve -----Original Message----- From: robert m. tynes [mailto:rtynes@u.washington.edu] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 9:59 AM To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] The Dire State of the AoIR List Dear all, I tend think of noise as very useful public information, and would be very leery of any rule-making, such as proposed by David Neice. Although I have found some of the *brain farts* annoying at times, I don't believe in banning them, or even castigating them. After all, social groups tend to self-regulate quite well, even when there are no codified rules. An example of this would be THIS CONVERSATION. So AOIR is boring? Well, say something intriguing. Anyway, I vote for no more rule-making. -Robert Tynes On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, David Neice wrote: > Hi, > > In the space of a year the AoIR list has gone from being mildly > interesting to being almost unreadable. I am not the only one who > is noticing the deterioration. > > In the interests of communication I suggest we: > > 1) Learn to use our email options and preferences. If an Internet > researcher used the AoIR list as an unobtrusive indicator of the > 'technical knowledge' of Internet researchers, their conclusions > would be dire. > > 2) Refrain from posting HTML, Word .doc (and other word > processor) files as well as MIME files. JUST PLAIN ASCII > PLEASE. ASCII file convertors are available for most word > processors. Also please check the options list re ASCII in your > email program. > > 3) Limit the recent trend towards posting 'brain farts', personal > attacks, and comments intended for one other person. THIS IS A > PUBLIC INFORMATION LIST. Please email personal comments > one-to-one. > > 4) Actually think about what we post, and, in particular, assess > how useful will it be to a wide range of list members. Idiosyncratic > commentary and unedited streams of consciousness are pushing > the noise-to-signal ratio way up. > > Cheers, > david neice > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > David C. Neice DPhil. > digital-literacy.com :-) > Website at http://www.kw.igs.net/~neice/ > Address: 47 Combermere, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 5B2 > Tel: 519-885-2951 Fax: 519-885-5263 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > _______________________________________________ > Air-l mailing list > Air-l(a)aoir.org > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l > _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

1 0

Recall: [Air-l] The Dire State of the AoIR List
by Steve Fox (NLG) 07 Mar '02

07 Mar '02

Steve Fox (NLG) would like to recall the message, "[Air-l] The Dire State of the AoIR List".

1 0

RE: [Air-l] The Dire State of the AoIR List
by Steve Fox (NLG) 07 Mar '02

07 Mar '02

Nice post...BTWE, where's the class today? I left the little slip of paper at home. Thx, Steve -----Original Message----- From: robert m. tynes [mailto:rtynes@u.washington.edu] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 9:59 AM To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] The Dire State of the AoIR List Dear all, I tend think of noise as very useful public information, and would be very leery of any rule-making, such as proposed by David Neice. Although I have found some of the *brain farts* annoying at times, I don't believe in banning them, or even castigating them. After all, social groups tend to self-regulate quite well, even when there are no codified rules. An example of this would be THIS CONVERSATION. So AOIR is boring? Well, say something intriguing. Anyway, I vote for no more rule-making. -Robert Tynes On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, David Neice wrote: > Hi, > > In the space of a year the AoIR list has gone from being mildly > interesting to being almost unreadable. I am not the only one who > is noticing the deterioration. > > In the interests of communication I suggest we: > > 1) Learn to use our email options and preferences. If an Internet > researcher used the AoIR list as an unobtrusive indicator of the > 'technical knowledge' of Internet researchers, their conclusions > would be dire. > > 2) Refrain from posting HTML, Word .doc (and other word > processor) files as well as MIME files. JUST PLAIN ASCII > PLEASE. ASCII file convertors are available for most word > processors. Also please check the options list re ASCII in your > email program. > > 3) Limit the recent trend towards posting 'brain farts', personal > attacks, and comments intended for one other person. THIS IS A > PUBLIC INFORMATION LIST. Please email personal comments > one-to-one. > > 4) Actually think about what we post, and, in particular, assess > how useful will it be to a wide range of list members. Idiosyncratic > commentary and unedited streams of consciousness are pushing > the noise-to-signal ratio way up. > > Cheers, > david neice > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > David C. Neice DPhil. > digital-literacy.com :-) > Website at http://www.kw.igs.net/~neice/ > Address: 47 Combermere, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 5B2 > Tel: 519-885-2951 Fax: 519-885-5263 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > _______________________________________________ > Air-l mailing list > Air-l(a)aoir.org > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l > _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

1 0

nature of air list, unreadability
by Andrea Baker 07 Mar '02

07 Mar '02

I would be happy if everyone could forget about asking for more technical know-how and not copy others' messages. Can we go to the system of each person clicking on the post to list link and only stating what they want to say? If we want to refer to earlier messages, we could summarize them in our own posts. Is this workable? I know some of us have asked for this mode in the past. best, andrea

1 0

RE: [Air-l] something totally different
by Thomas Burg 07 Mar '02

07 Mar '02

Thanks to all of your for responding, it really helps digging and finding the way through this jungle of meanings, traditions and idiosyncrasies. I posted this question in another forum, the inhabitants of this community came up with the following �------- original quotation �--- Thomas Burg: �--------------- � To sum up the discussion for me briefly. The distinction of MA vs. MSc is based on several aspects. - If the program has a research focus than it's likely to be a MSc if it's not in the classical Arts fields like Language, Art and other Humanities - If the program is located at a Professional School such as Law, Medicine, Nursing ... than it contrasts to Liberal Arts Colleges and Sciences. - The amount of courses that account for either Arts or hard sciences (Maths, Physics, Chemistry ...) determine if the whole program is either or. - If you can't make it to a PhD you better apply for an MSc - The tradition/culture and whatever of an institution determine about the naming - There is no precise algorithm that is able to decide on the issue. I tried to get the 2 Computer Science Bachelors from Rutger (referring to a specific post) in one picture (see atachment) to see the differnces - there are some but few. Thomas N. Burg, ______________________________________ Center for New Media http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/newmedia Donau Universitaet Krems Dr. Karl Dorrek Strasse 30 A-3500 Krems, Austria Fon +43-2732-893-2520, Fax -4500 Mobil: +43-699-11656971

1 0

Age and Gender Distribution Amongst New Car Buyers Being Online
by Olaf Hofmann 07 Mar '02

07 Mar '02

Hi, does anybody know where I could get frequency distributions on age and gender amongst new car buyers being online? Your help is much appreciated!! Many thanks in advance. Olaf Hofmann ************************ olaf.hofmann(a)skopos.de Tel: +49 (0) 2233-518440 http://www.skopos.de

1 0

research request: SPAM
by Ken Friedman 07 Mar '02

07 Mar '02

2) Subject: REQUEST - Spam and opt-in/opt-out From: "mkorchia" <mkorchia(a)free.fr> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 21:31:58 +0100 Do you know if there is any published work about spam? Some research about why some companies do spam, or about how consumer perceive spam? (& more generally opt-in/opt-out) __^o^__ michael korchia mkorchia(a)free.fr watoo watoo homepage http://www.watoowatoo.net mumbly homepage http://www.multimania.com/aurore/ mailing-list serge gainsbourg http://tetedechou.watoowatoo.net/

3 2

The Sisters of No Mercy?
by Lachlan Brown 06 Mar '02

06 Mar '02

Of course, the apparent endorsement by the Vatican of The Internet as a 'gift from Christ' leading humanity 'toward communion' is no reason to slacken your present efforts in identifying abuses in scholarship and in industry, especially in the field of ethics. The interest of the Vatican in Ethics and Internet can mean only one thing, that the body of the Catholic Church, often a militant body, of some 1 billion people, will take a personal interest in your efforts. Nobody expects... but let's ditch the Protestant Humour, eh? Lachlan -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup

2 1

[Fwd: 2002 Emerging Issues Conference]
by John B. White 06 Mar '02

06 Mar '02

Conference in Myrtle Beach. --JW -------- Original Message -------- Subject: 2002 Emerging Issues Conference Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 09:36:33 -0600 From: Harold Little <harold.little(a)wku.edu> Organization: Western Kentucky University To: #Accounting & Finance Mail Group <AccountFinance(a)wku.edu>,#Economics & Marketing Mail Group <EconMarketing(a)wku.edu>,#Management & Information Systems Mail Group <MISDept(a)wku.edu>,Byron Henry <bhenry(a)howard.edu>, "Cheryl Allen,EBA" <callen(a)morehouse.edu>,Peter Theuri <theuri(a)nku.edu>, Winifred Scott <scottw(a)be.udel.edu>,Gordon Ford College of Business <gfcob(a)wku.edu> CC: "Harold T. Little Jr." <Harold.Little(a)wku.edu> Greetings from Harold: Just a short message to let you know that preparations for the 2002 Conference on Emerging Issues in Business and Technology sponsored by Western Illinois University are well underway and to ask your help in getting the word out to as many people as possible. The conference brochure is almost ready to go to the printer and should be mailed this month. In the meantime, the conference website is up and contains complete conference information, including submission guidelines. For your convenience, I have attached a mini-announcement which provides basic details and can easily be forwarded. Please take a moment to record the dates in your planning calendar and send the attachment to your interested friends and colleagues. The deadline for paper submissions is July 12. I appreciate your help and hope to see you in Myrtle Beach. Best regards, Dale Schofield, Conference Chair Western Illinois University Harold Little, Conference Accounting and Finance Track Chair Western Kentucky University

1 0