Michelle, you probably have a good point here about the givens, especially
for people who joined much after OSLIST was created, back in late 1996. We
got the thing off the ground without messing around with details, just to
have something for the OST community to use for engaging in dialogue. Th
Diane, Murli, Chris and others;
I have not been able to follow all of the conversations on the list as
quickly as others these past weeks. Thanks for the follow up to my query. My
question was not really in regard to technology or no technology, but about
the givens. Murli's response as to how the
At 08:44 AM 6/30/00 -0700, you wrote:
Thank you Jan and Murli for the clarifications you brought.
You're welcome, Diane.
You detected well the piece that was missing for me. Maybe this had been
said before within the numerous messages that went out but if it did, I
missed it and I am sorry for
Diane:
I thank you for raising the idea of givens around egroups etc...we should
walk our talk after all.
For me, I actually found OSLIST by surfing, so I have a soft spot for making
it open. However, I'm careful with my stories to not "out" organizations or
communities I'm working with where th
Thank you Jan and Murli for the clarifications you brought.
My comments were made in response to Michelle's question about creating
safe space in the new format. From her message I understood that the
egroup contrary to the oslist would automatically be opened to any web
surfer, looking for nothin
In a message dated 06/28/2000 1:51:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
d...@cyberus.ca writes:
<< Who's there on the egroup (web accessed) will no longer be answerable it
seems >>
Diane, it sounds as if you're concerned that once on the web, the oslist is
more accessible to the public - to strangers.
Another clarification:
Listserv is no more and no less secure than Egroups. Anyone -- just
anyone -- with the necessary subscription instructions can subscribe to
either. The subscription instructions are publicly available. Anyone --
just anyone -- who has subscribed, can access the archive
I have been silent on this issue, since I am just catching up in reading
past messages. I have no technological wisedom to contribute but
Michelle's question (below) touched upon a cord.
I feel the OSChatlist is a coummunity. There was something safe about
exploring ideas and questions within a c
