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Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: [VLES] Welcome Back
It isn't up to Government agency staff, such as those employed
by JISC to decide whether lists stay open.
It was requested in the
"General Election Guidance 2005 " issued on April 5th by the Cabinet Office.
Section H.10.e includes the following:
"Interactive functions such as
discussion groups which allow the public posting of comment or debate should
be suspended."
We operate several Government websites where apparently
innocent discussion forums had to be suspended for the duration of the
election. The guidance isn't only there to stop staff posting comment and
opinion, but to stop everyone doing so. This is to remove any possible
accusation that publicly funded systems are used to propagate campaign
information and political opinion during the election.
James
England
At 15:49 06/05/2005 +0100, you wrote:
Colleagues
I set up the
new list as a means of keeping a discussion channel open in
the light of
a decision that, in spite of Richard's Explanation, I still
don't
understand. JISCMAIL is an academic discussion forum and for me
certain
privileges and responsibilities go along with that. Anyone can
either
post or not post. Government agency staff could simply have said
we will
not be posting for the duration of the election. To shut down
the entire
channel is indefensible in my view. List "owners" should only
manage the
list on behalf of members. Members are not there to serve the
purposes of
the list owner. The new list has over 180 members which I
believe is a
substantial increase on the older list. I'm not sure what
that says, but
I have offered to merge the Becta list and keep the new
one, thus
ensuring that agency staff are not placed in the difficult
position in
which they found themselves a month ago.
Now its back to problems
with VLEs ... And why our SCORM tracking code
doesn't seem to be getting
back to our server ...
Regards
Nigel Peet
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