Colleagues,
We’re very pleased to confirm that this list is now open again.
I should explain the reasons behind the abrupt closure of this list on Monday 4th April. Becta received notification upon the parliamentary recess that all public discussion or announcements relating to government policy should be ended until the election. At the previous election this did not explicitly relate to email and websites, so it is an interesting illustration of the growing importance of electronic communications. We did not want to have to close the lists, but on seeking advice it seemed our only choice was to close it or to moderate every single message. As a team we felt that such hands-on moderation is at odds with the peer-to-peer nature of this list, so we took the difficult choice to suspend the list for a month.
I know from the high volume of feedback and complaints that this suspension was not popular, and I can only apologise for the impact it has had. I hope you will bear with us in getting discussion back to its normal levels.
Thanks, as they say, for your patience!
Amber
Amber Thomas
Ferl Project Manager
Becta
Millburn Hill Road, Science Park, Coventry, CV4 7JJ
tel: 024 76 797167
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website: http://ferl.becta.org.uk/
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