I would be more sympathetic to the original poster if their petition actually
petitioned for something. Unfortunately, the "petition" on that website is
simply a half dozen sentences basically saying "someone should pay attention to
this" without actually suggesting what should happen, who should do it, who is
sponsoring the petition, or what would happen to the petition once completed.
It looked suspiciously like an attempt to get names and email addresses.
Steve McDonald
[email protected]
-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Chris Hoffman
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2019 12:08 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Note [administratativia]
Thanks, Eric, I can appreciate your thinking. I also think there’s a fair
likelihood that the poster may have felt they could not post with their full
information due to the sensitive nature of the content. It’s unfortunately the
case that there is still a lot of discrimination that victims of sexual
harassment face, and I can imagine dozens of reasons someone would be nervous
about trying to surface these issues. Hopefully there are other venues and
mailing lists where S B can get the word out and gather information to help
bring light to a very serious problem.
Thanks for listening,
Chris
> On Jun 28, 2019, at 8:58 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Jun 28, 2019, at 11:52 AM, Chris Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Eric, can I ask something? Was your concern about the posting from “S B”
>> about the content of the message or the anonymous nature of the person
>> posting? I think it would be good for this to be transparent.
>>
>> --
>> Chris Hoffman, Ph.D.
>> Associate Director, Research IT
>> Program Director, Research Data Management
>> <http://researchdata.berkeley.edu/> & Informatics Services UC
>> Berkeley [email protected]
>> 510-256-9643
>
>
> Chris, the short answer is, "Both".
>
> First of all, I was suspicious when the posting was not really signed. I can
> over look signatures if the sender's email address is understandable. In this
> case, there was no signature nor was the email address understandable. Then,
> the content looked suspicious as well, with a link to yet another
> understandable thing.
>
> --
> Eric Morgan
