Let's be helpful...WAS Re: [Sigia-l] web writing for kids

[George Schneiderman]

>> 1. I personally know inexperienced IAs who are too frightened to 
>> *post* to
>> this list because they do not want to be told off for being ignorant
>
> I don't recall anyone doing this at all, except for one occasion where 
> it
> was also publicly discussed.

Well, at the recent IA Summit, when Jesse James Garrett referred to 
this list as, if I recall his words correctly, "a blight upon the 
landscape of Information Architecture", and begged the list owners to 
take corrective steps, this is, I believe, precisely the sort of thing 
he was talking about.  I certainly wasn't the only person there who 
applauded his comments.

Personally, I think that George Olsen overreacted a tad to Ziya's 
initial "this was discussed before" message, which wasn't particularly 
aggressive in tone, I thought.  But Ziya more than made up for that 
with the vitriol of his subsequent messages, as a result of which I 
have finally gotten around to instituting some sender-based filtering.

Still, I would like to repeat Garrett's call for the list owners to 
take more aggressive action in instituting and enforcing standards for 
professional courtesy, or at least civility, on this list.

--George Schneiderman