Nancy invites comments from members of the list. I am for institution and enforcement of guidelines to prevent further extremes as found in the Lachlan contributions to this list. I also recommend the procedures and software required for individual list members to kill contributions be publicized on the list. If nothing is done, this list will rapidlly degenerate in value for many of us. Nick Jankowski Associate Professor University of Nijmegen Post Office Box 9104 6500 HE Nijmegen The Netherlands
Message: 5 Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 14:36:48 -0600 To: air-l@aoir.org From: Nancy Baym <nbaym@ku.edu> Subject: [Air-l] re: Lachlan's CV (or stepping OVER the line) Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org
Mary Gray writes:
I'd like to ask the AIR members and leadership to rethink/reconsider our stand on guidelines for posting to this list
Mary and others, the executive committee has been discussing this a lot lately, so don't feel your concerns have gone unnoticed. I think it's fair to say that if there is a consensus amongst list members that we need to create a new standard of guidelines and means of enforcing them, we are open to doing that. My preference has been to let the list speak first.
This list has been going for just under two and a half years and has grown from 14 members to over 1,000. It's reasonable to expect weird periods from time to time, and net scholars ought to figure out together how to get through them with the kind of list we want this to be intact.
Nancy _________________________________________________________ Nancy Baym nbaym@ku.edu http://www.ku.edu/home/nbaym Communication Studies, University of Kansas 102 Bailey, 1440 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 66045, USA Association of Internet Researchers: http://aoir.org