On Tue, 18 Apr 1995, Joan Korenman wrote:
 
>         John Buckman writes:
> >
> > We've set up a new WWW site for finding LISTSERV lists.  It is part
> > of the tile.net project . . .
>
> I am troubled by your inconsiderately including lists without so
> much as a prior word to the listowners.
>....
> In sum, WMST-L is a narrow, academic list aimed primarily at
> Women's Studies professors, researchers, librarians, and program
> administrators.  It doesn't need publicity in the world at large, and it
> certainly doesn't need inadequate and misleading publicity.  I am writing
> to register my strong objection to your actions and to ask that you remove
> WMST-L from your WWW site.
>
I have no objection to the WWW site (except that the numbers of
subscribers (4) to CSOCWORK is based on the first day of operation.  It
now has 90).  It is compiled from information already publicly available
and I am all in favour of making public information as accessible as
possible.  WWW certainly does that.  In fact I have added a link to it in
our WWW page for social workers.  If it is not desired to have the
existence of the list made public then Confidential= Yes should be used.
 
As for WMST-L, does not the "Women's Studies" description identify it as
an academic list, not intended for the discussion of societal issues?
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