Fair enough.There are sites which have posts from:Anonimous.Any messages
from Ombudsman should be about Ombudsman business.
Ombudsman account for AECOM <ombudsmn@aecom.yu.edu>@aecom.yu.edu> on
11/10/2000 03:22:54 PM
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Subject: Re: An Apology (fwd)
Might I suggest a couple of things:
1) the ombudsman should not post anything as "the ombudsman" - really
this is bad! if the person behind the ombudsman account wishes to
express an opinion, either it should be signed or it should be
anonymous via the same mechanism as anyone else's message.
2) the ombudsman should not filter messages - vulgarity maybe, and
yes, no toner cartridge advertisements :-P The message in question
could be interpreted as worth a little eyebrow raising and the
comments were basically worthless, but if that message was squashed
by the ombudsman I would have a real problem with it (of course we
wouldn't necessarily know it happened...).
I agree that the message itself is nothing to get worked up over and
I don't think the ombudsman owes anyone an apology (not is it
appropriate to post one speaking as the ombudsman - just don't start
censoring the folks who want to use this unique anonymous service!)
by the way, here's a really interesting link about listservs life
cycles: http://wwwc.catalog.com/vivian/lifecycle.html
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