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>Now let me turn to another question. What recourse do we have when
>an un moderated group is abused in this fashion? Of course, there may
>be some or even many who don't view this as an abuse. To check out
>how people feel I'd like to conduct a little straw poll. Send me a private
>e-mail giving your opinion on whether Steve is abusing the group with
>this policy. No need to give your reasons, a simple yes or no will do.
>I am particularly interested in hearing what lurkers think about this.
>All replies will be held in confidence, though I will post the overall
>results back to the group.
>
It was indicated to me privately that a better approach might be
to give the results to Steve privately rather posting them to
the group. I agree, so that is what I plan to do. I guess public
hangings are no longer politically correct :). Actually, its not
too clear whether the vote will come out as I anticipated.
Right now its split 50/50, but the sample size is rather
small {2} :).
also, in giving the following excerpt:
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>The group will be self-policing with respect to propriety of
>discussion topics and the spirit in which discussions are
>conducted. Only in extreme cases will the list manager step in.
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I did not mean to imply in any way that the list manager should
step in in this case. I believe in the present case that this would
only make matters worse.
Brian Harper
Associate Professor
Applied Mechanics
Ohio State University