Wilma,
I don't know. Is Villanova responsible for our content, right now, on
UC-list?
Your second point does make some sense to me. But how to control it?
Large universities are mare's nests of email accounts and websites. You
can find some pretty bizarre pages on some of them.
Maybe Kyle's listserve should include some sort of standard disclaimer
of university affiliation for walk-ins. Or maybe ....
While we're on it, how did UC-list come to be called "purple" instead of
"villanova"?
-- Tony West
I don't think Penn is sponsoring the group. What I meant is they are
the owner of the domain in which gives them a certain responsibility
for its content, doesn't it.
As for your second point about group credibility, it is rather the
appearance of credibility. That is to say, if I was looking for a
listserv forum i this area and I ran across the UC Neighbors and saw
upenn.edu in its address, I would probably think if I didn't know
better that this Neighbors listserv is affiliated with the university
because it is under their domain.
If I see a forum under cbsnews.com, or citibank.com or harvard.edu, I
would most likely assume these would under their domains and subject
to all regulations therein.
Wilma
