Art: I couldn't agree with you more, nor could I have said it better myself.
IN fact, that's what I was trying to say. I don't think it would have been
improper for me to have sent a notice about the information I thought might be
of use to the group. And, in that case, whether it was of use or not would
have been up to each member's opinion, should they have decided to access it.
Unfortunately, I swiftly forwarded the AgeNet posting which came to me intact
to the entire list. I should have simply made the reference to the information
available, not the information itself, especially when it was not in plain
text.
I don't want to beat myself senseless here over a laspse in judgement, but I do
agree with you that a lesson has been learned the hard way about forwarding
information to each and every member on the list--in lieu of simply making
available a reference to the information.
Arthur Hirsch wrote:
> Shortly after John Bjork's posting about AgeNet on 6 June, there was a hue
> and cry about that posting - for what I believe was the wrong reason. In
> fact I commend John for posting it - and for the disclaimer that he used -
> but he did it the wrong way.
>
> There is nothing wrong with posting false information to the list. (of
> course, there's nothing right about it either) - as all of us know that the
> list contains much deceiving, outdated, false information, and we sort it
> out with each others' help. I'm not accusing AgeNet of being any of these,
> but if it were, it would just be so much chaff to separate from the wheat.
>
> There is nothing wrong with discussing a product or service that somebody
> somewhere may make money on or referring to such a person or company's
> website. Most of the websites on the World Wide Web were placed there for
> commercial purposes. But we zealously guard this list against becoming
> anybody's commercial tool.
>
> Maybe I missed it, but I'm surprised that nobody else caught this point:
>
> What is wrong is the fact that HTML material was sent to the list. Many of
> our listmembers have e-mail clients that cannot handle HTML, and we have
> made as effort to restrict the list to plain text for that reason. Had the
> posting about AgeNet been in plain text, in would have been less obtrusive
> and it would not have stirred up as much dust.
>
> So let this serve as a reminder.....
>
> Art
>
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