Dear All,<div><br></div><div>I think Adam has hit on something there in that this list does get treated by many as being a Facebook or blog type space where it&#39;s perfectively acceptable to endlessly &#39;post&#39; at will. However, these formats require subscribers to login and read, so consumption is somewhat voluntary, whereas this list sends a mail to our inboxes (assuming you haven&#39;t opted for the digest alert) so we receive communications whether we want them or not. Therefore, I think everybody should stop and think &#39;would I ordinarily e-mail this type of thing or share it on a blog&#39; before sending out a mail, and if it&#39;s the latter don&#39;t use this format!</div>
<div><br></div><div>The flip side is this whole debate is about trying to police an unregulated web space, so I guess those of us who have signed up need to accept the fact that these type of forums are impossible to regulate like our academic journals etc.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Ultimately though, I echo what many have said - please exercise self-awareness of what you are sharing and consider it&#39;s appropriateness or otherwise before doing so.</div><div><br></div><div>All the best,</div>
<div><br></div><div>John.</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br>Dr. John Watters<div>University College London</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Adam Ramadan <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]" target="_blank"><a href="/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?LOGON=A3%3Dind1210%26L%3DCRIT-GEOG-FORUM%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D4418697%26B%3D--14dae93b63740cc54904cccd4395%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DISO-8859-1%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear colleagues,<br>
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This subject has now generated many many emails and opinions over three days. I suspect that rather than setting up parallel email lists, clever email filter rules, or discussing this ad nauseam, we ought simply to look at why those original objections were raised on Monday. On Monday, eight new discussion threads were created by two people - some of that content was probably interesting to some or many list subscribers, but perhaps 24,000+ emails did not need to be sent. Blogs, Facebook or Twitter (bird-brains included) might be better media for some of the content frequently being posted here. Rather than this endless discussion about what CGF is, should be or could be, perhaps we can just carry on with a little greater collective and individual self-awareness about what content might be worth sending on, and how much might be too much.<br>

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Regards,<br>
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Adam<br>
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Dr Adam Ramadan<br>
Lecturer in Human Geography<br>
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences<br>
University of Birmingham<br>
B15 2TT<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Dr. John Watters<div>University College London</div><br>
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