Sean,
The title of the email was the subject of the email which was sent to quite a few people wit the words pass this on and it was of a fairly important nature regarding reading, thus the title. Dodgy is a bit of a rude term on its own and if you did see the types of people passing this on I don't think I would refer to them as passing on something dodgy. I guess what I am saying is there seems to be a restrictive nature to the BASA forum that has some presumptions about what can be and cannot be allowed which I did not understand.
This was not of a personal nature at all though and it is going through the hands of quite a few academics and cultural preservationists and it is an interesting take on honest history telling initiated by a Harvard professor.
I guess I will have to be very careful about what I send in and how I address it. I am sorry if this would have insulted anybody, especially you, and I understand it is your job to screen.
I will cut and paste it but I actually thought it might have been interesting to others to see who this message and article was sent to and passed on from, especially since they expressed a wish that that be done.
Ross
--- On Thu, 2/7/09, SEAN CREIGHTON <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: SEAN CREIGHTON <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: BASAJISC ground rules
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Thursday, 2 July, 2009, 5:07 PM
I think we need to review the ground rules for BASAJISC, as well as eveyrone refreshing their knowledge of the JISC advice. I do get complaints about private conversations, and about what some people regard as rudeness and hectoring.
And now we have had from Herman Ross an email with a subject heading which many will consider dodgy and will therefore not open. If such emails are OK it would be best if they are given a suitable subject heading.
Also it would be better to copy, cut and paste the text into a new email especially when email addresses of people not signed up to the BASAJISC list are publicly viewable. It is not fair on them to have their email addresses publicly available on the record in the BASAJISC archive.
Thanks.
Sean
