[Air-L] on the recent change ...

[jeremy hunsinger]

Gotta say that I've yet to see anything that lends merit to the  
necessity of this change.

I can see the argument that some people are unhappy with the amount of  
email they receive from the list, but should that impinge upon the  
people who don't have a problem with it... I am pretty sure that email  
management is not a community problem, but a personal problem.

I think we need to know why this change was a good or legitimate  
choice for the organization.

It was a premature change, made without consultation to the  
membership, with apparently no strong justification.

A working group is fine, but why should the working group operate  
under different settings from air-l currently, but i bet... it will  
have the correct/normal reply settings on its lists if it chooses to  
use one.

It just seems to me that... there isn't anything keeping this setting  
from being normal.  There seems to be a good amount of support for it  
being normal.

Perhaps there is a huge mass of people communicating with the exec  
that this is a good thing, but I've not seen that, and it seems like  
that should be made in the public forum to me.   That is sort of what  
AoIR centers on, this public forum, we used to have other forums, but  
this is sort of the last big one.



Jeremy Hunsinger
Political Science
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
Virginia Tech
Information Ethics Fellow
Center for Information Policy Research

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