[Sigia-l] Moderator Speaking

[Boniface Lau]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org]On
> Behalf Of James Weinheimer
> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 12:35 PM
> To: sigia-l at asis.org
> Subject: [Sigia-l] Moderator Speaking
> 
[...] 
> This is a free list, which means that you must control yourselves.
> If you don't, the moderators will have to check every message before
> it is sent.

The CHIWEB list has been doing that all along and it makes CHIWEB a
terrible place for voicing dissenting opinions.

During a CHIWEB discussion with Louis Rosenfeld, I referred to Richard
Saul Wurman's book "Information Architects" for a term definition:

http://www.acm.org/archives/wa.cgi?A2=ind0001A&L=chi-web&F=&S=&P=1611

Rosenfeld took offence of the above message and complained to the CHIWEB
moderators saying:

LR> your posting below seems to be getting uncomfortably personal and
LR> nasty, implying (by my reading) a gap in my credentials as an
LR> information architect, which is a first for me, and, quite
LR> frankly, strange.

[...]

LR> your reference to Wurman as an IA expert (no argument here) is a
LR> swipe at me as a non-expert.

After the Rosenfeld complaint, the CHIWEB moderators put up road
blocks against my messages. For instance, the moderator Keith Instone
(an employee of the firm in which Rosenfeld was the president) refused
to post my message to CHIWEB because:

KI> there are several "you" and "your" and such addresses, and in each
KI> case, these are references to an individual, not a group. 

Such behind-the-scene censoring makes CHIWEB a much less likely place
for discussions with substance. I hope this list will never resort to
such "membership maintenance".


Boniface