In a message dated 4/3/2004 10:06:18 PM Central Standard Time,
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Further to the discussion of copyright and privacy, I'm wondering what
other list owners think about a list owner who frequently puts subscribers
on Review and then edits their posts before forwarding them to the list.
She also alters the posts stored in the archives. I don't mean that she
goes in there to delete misdirected posts or near-duplicates; in some
cases she is altering the content of what the poster said by deleting text
or moving it around, with no notice that she has done so and that the post
isn't as it was originally sent. This is a professional list, and her
level of interference makes me extremely uncomfortable.

Do those of you who do this yourselves see any moral/ethical/copyright
conflict in what you're doing, or do you consider it your right as the
owner of the list? I can't imagine doing it on my own list--and I'm not
happy when it's done to me by another list owner.

Comments?

Jane
Jane

The Berlin Wall fell in 1989.  I was on a non L-serve list (majordomo) where
the list owner controlled and censored the content.  I posted proof to the
list (message consored) and copied all members I could reach privately who thus
immediately became aware of the censorship.

I started a new list using l-soft.  Quickly, once subscribers realized the
old list edit/censor policies, everyone left and rejoined the new list, named
FreeSpeech.

My point is that you should let your fellow list posters know.  If you post
the issue to your list and privately copy as many subscribers as you can, they
will have proof of the actions of the list owner.  If they find the policies
intolerable, you can start a new list, easily.  Contact Whathelps.com, one such
service.  I am sure there are others.  Starting a list is duck soup easy for
anyone with $9.95 a month to spare, and connection to the internet.

Stan