Re: [ga] Final draft of proposed mailing list rules

["Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>]

I have to agree with this.  The true record must be the whole thing.  The
filtered list is a value-added service.  (Or, value-subtracted, depending
on your tastes.)

An alternate rule is just asking for recrimination when someone charges
censorship just before an important deadline.  It will be a major
distraction from serious work, and just isn't worth it.

On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Ellen Rony wrote:

> 
> 
> >On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 Kent Crispin wrote:
> >>
> >Sorry, you misunderstand the intent.  The unfiltered list is not the
> >"true record".
> 
> A true record of a mailing list is everything submitted to it--warts and
> all.  A subset of that true record is any version that is monitored,
> summarized or limited in some manner.
> 
> The historical archive (i.e., true record) would include all messages, not
> just those that some gatekeeper(s) felt were relevant.  All
> discussion--even that which is self-serving, uninformative, misleading,
> misguided, inaccurate, repetitive, off-topic, outrageous, banal, and/or
> boring--is part of the mailing list process and the true record.
> 
> People who have time constraints may prefer to use one of the subsets of
> the true record, e.g., a moderated list, list digest, filtered recipient
> list, or cherry-picked reading list.  None of these approaches represent
> the true record.
> 
> Thus, the true record, or *untouched* mailing list, should be the one that
> appears at ga@dnso.org.
> 
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