Part of the problem is most of us know who that person is and their agenda is dubious at best. There’s a reason they did not use their name and it has more to do with notoriety than sensitive subject matter.
-val > On Jun 28, 2019, at 12:29 PM, McDonald, Stephen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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
