Date sent: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 16:19:12 -0000
Subject: Enough is enough
From: "STEIN R.D." <[log in to unmask]>
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Roger,
This is an excellent point. I spend far too much time scanning and
then deleting emails which are of little or no relevance to DP in HE.
Come on you lot - most of us in the overworked and underpaid HE
sector already have far too much to do and have had to add DP to
heavingly enormous portfolios. Enough with the non-HE stuff,
already (and especially the hypothetical questions.)
Melody Mellor
University of Leeds
Enough is enough even for a Friday afternoon.
Can we please get back to basics?
What is Mailbase?
Mailbase is a service which runs electronic discussion lists for the UK
higher education and research community.
data-protection
The aims of this list are to encourage an exchange of information for those
with responsibilities for Data Protection within their organization and to
encourage questions and answers from any other interested people.
It seems a pity that following the publication of the JISC DP CoP for HE
there has been virtually no
discussion of its contents. In fact some of the more detailed discussion has
gone on quite separately
to this list.
Meanwhile we have a pointless interchange over one of the many examples that
exist of poor
DP practice. (First landlords.com them 192.com). Other detailed discussions
seem to be about
particular local authority matters from the .gov.uk members. (Why don't they
use their own
discussion list for items which are not of general relevance to HE?)
Maybe time to turn over a new leaf from Monday when we go over to JISCmail.
Or maybe time
to consider Freedom of Information legislation which will impact even more
heavily on many HE
institutions than DP has!
Thanks
Roger Stein
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