Re: OWNERSHIP: Fwd: Status of moderator discussion

["William B. Ryan" <w_b_ryan@yahoo.com>]

You state:-

"I cannot delegate to someone else the authority to
make such requests."

I will take this to mean what it seems to say, that
you will remain solely responsible and answerable for
deletions from the archive.

I remember that have I directed your attention
previously to computer viruses in the archive, which
were quite reasonably removed.

If moderation is limited to merely requesting from you
that you take certain action regarding the existing
archive, or any other matter, as all of us have the
equal right to do, inasmuch as each of us individually
has the freedom of speech to express his opinion on
any matter whatsoever--I will have no objection.

I fully expect you will respond to any such request in
a responsible manner, as you have always done in the
past.

It is a very serious matter to change the rules of the
game after several years, if messages are deleted from
a public archive, to which the public previously had
access.

I remind you that the obligations imposed by the First
Amendment to the Constitution of the United States,
particularly upon federally tax-exempt institutions
involving political discussion, are not trumped by
majority vote, however defined, or by any person
supposedly chosen by majority vote, however defined.

You can't declaim personal responsibility because you
are following some arbitrarily defined "democratic"
process, especially when it is you who has arbitrarily
defined the process.

That's what Pontius Pilot did, by the way--in no way
comparing the trivial importance of this situation to
that one.
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--- Dan Bell <dbell@kent.edu> wrote:

> Bill,
> 
> At 07:04 AM 7/12/2005 -0700, you wrote:
> >I take note that the proposal to delete messages
> from
> >the existing archive is off the table:-
> >
> >The moderator will not be able to:
> >
> >c) clean up the files.
> 
> 

I was simply clarifying that an ability to make
frequent changes to the archive is unrealistic since
it requires the unpaid work of KSU support staff. I
cannot delegate to someone else the authority to make
such requests.

They are willing to remove items from time to time,
when I request this. I have limited these requests
primarily for removing spam and attachments with 
viruses, but could request on a limited basis that
other messages be deleted, if the active participants
authorized a moderator to make such requests. For the
most part, such a practice would be limited to
messages added to the archive after such a process
were authorized by the group, though there could be
exceptions.

Since the moderator would control what messages were
relayed to the list, I would not expect the moderator
to make such a request very frequently.
 
Cheers,
 
Dan
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