Clare writes:

> Rob Bos wrote:
>
> > Ted Endacott's thoughts in Bandy are worth pondering.
>
> They might be, but didn't list members agree last year that, since the
> list is no longer archived publicly, passing on list posts to
> non-members without the writers' permissions is a no-no?

We may have done (I am not doubting Clare, I just don't have any memory of
this conversation), but I wonder if there is actually any point to doing
this.  The list is an unmoderated public list - anyone who finds their way
to the Synod website can subscribe to it. The command to get a list of
members is disabled so there is no way of finding out who is lurking on it
(which I think is a good thing, spam-wise), so I think one needs to consider
that anything posted to the list is a public comment at least within the
UCA.  If it's not something you're comfortable about having everyone in the
Uniting Church hear, then this list is probably not the place to post it.
This, of course, is very different to passing posts from the list on to
members of the media and other people outside the Uniting Church, for which
I would expect people to ask my permission.

If we want to go the way of getting permission to pass any posts at all on,
that needs to be included in the welcome message that people get when they
subscribe and someone also needs to remind members periodically. There is
also, of course, a difference between forwarding whole posts (which give
context) and forwarding snippets (which quotes people out of context and is
open to misunderstanding).

Regards

Judy


--
"Politics is the work we do to keep the world safe for our spirituality" -
Judith Plaskow

Rev Judy Redman
Uniting Church Chaplain
University of New England
Armidale 2351
ph:  +61 2 6773 3739
fax: +61 2 6773 3749
web:  http://www.une.edu.au/campus/chaplaincy/uniting/
action for peace:
http://www.une.edu.au/campus/chaplaincy/uniting/links/peace.html
email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

------------------------------------------------------
- You are subscribed to the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the message body 'unsubscribe 
insights-l' (ell, not one (1))
See: http://nsw.uca.org.au/insights-l-information.htm
------------------------------------------------------

Reply via email to