[bestbits] New private list private at lists.bestbits.net

[michael gurstein]

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From: bestbits-request at lists.bestbits.net
[mailto:bestbits-request at lists.bestbits.net] On Behalf Of Carolina Rossini
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 9:05 AM
To: Jeremy Malcolm
Cc: Marianne Franklin; <bestbits at lists.bestbits.net>
(bestbits at lists.bestbits.net); irp at lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org
Subject: Re: [bestbits] New private list private at lists.bestbits.net

 

Hi all, 

I am all for transparency, too. I even document my day to day work in wikis.
However, sometimes we just need a private forum to discuss strategy. That is
all. People can or cannot use it. But at least, they have the alternative.
And it is just an alternative. 

C

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:

On 14/06/2013, at 8:09 PM, Marianne Franklin <m.i.franklin at gold.ac.uk>
wrote:





It is a fundamental principle of equality surely online too? Openness and
transparency are what we are fighting for, no?

 

I think so, but I'm trying to be a neutral facilitator here, and this an
issue on which there are equally strong opinions on both sides, manifested
by repeated (off-list, uncuriously) requests for a closed list.  I'm for
radical transparency personally, but it seems to be quite an alien concept
to some segments of civil society (I've found this in working on trade
issues, for example), and so offering the choice seems to be the best middle
path to take.  The default though, I certainly agree, should be to use the
open lists.

 

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