Devoutly to be wished, no doubt!

 

Meanwhile, in the real world . . .

 

 

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From: [log in to unmask]">James England

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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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