[Air-l] Is this What the Air List Is For????

[Steve Jones]

Concerning the question of appropriateness, when AoIR got its start 
(not so many years ago) and air-l ran on my little server my goal was 
to let the community fend for itself concerning appropriateness of 
postings, and I believe the AoIR executive committee has taken a 
similarly laissez-faire approach (with one exception when we had to 
remove a person from the list). My strong preference is to continue 
to let the community set its standards as it goes.

Concerning the issue of air-l being "essentially a social science 
list," in my (emphatic) opinion it is most certainly not that. It is 
a list to which are subscribed social scientists, artists, musicians, 
lawyers, doctors, humanities scholars, journalists, marketing 
professionals, academics of all stripes (undergraduate students 
through to emeritus faculty), all of whom (I think) are trying to 
make sense of what the internet does and what we (insert your 
definition of "we" here) do with it.

In short, I've learned something from virtually every posting to 
air-l (excluding perhaps the aforementioned incident requiring 
removal of a subscriber, but even then I think I learned some things).

Thanks,
Sj


At 10:40 PM +0000 2/20/03, SocAdmin wrote:
>Isn't this essentially a social science list? That just happens to pertain
>to the internets impact etc?
>>From this particular member I find any 'social' discussion that even touches
>on the internet (as the posts in question did) is relevent, and I should
>imagine that all on this list are mature enough and level headed enough to
>not start a full on flame war. A discussion group will go little way to
>discussion if people cannot 'discuss'.
>
>With regard to the msg in question however, I'm all for being pro-active in
>these temultuous times, but do you actually believe the power of email is so
>great it will make any difference? I am assuming all messages will be
>promptly deleted. :o(
>
>Angela
>VERY Happy with the list and it's varied and interesting content.
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Quentin (Gad) Jones" <qgjones at acm.org>
>To: <air-l at aoir.org>
>Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 10:25 PM
>Subject: [Air-l] Is this What the Air List Is For????
>
>
>>  I am concerned that the discussion on the AIR list has moved from
>>  question of the impact on internet technology on global politics and
>>  activism to politics.  Who should be emailed what etc.
>>
>>  I am quite certain that a variety of political views exist on this list.
>>      I think posting for ignoring the threat posed by the fascist Iraq
>>  Baath party, appeasement, peace sit-ins, happenings, new forms of
>>  containment, military intervention, regime change, or war is an
>>  inappropriate use of the list!!!
>>
>>  Thank You
>>  Quentin
>>
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