Hi Georgia! Nice to meet you :)
Um, this listserve is many things to many people. As Karen eloquently put it, it can be a "soapbox", it can be silly, it can be frustrating, it can denigrate into personal attacks - yeah, it's happened more than once. But it also does serve a purpose in people living in this area getting to know things that are going on. If there's a rash of robberies, or potential scam artists (the security alarm thing where people were going door to door)), car break-ins, car and property damage, lost and found pets, general neighborhood announcements, all kinds of things. So just hang in there! You'll learn who you want to read and who you don't; what you want to read and what you don't and just use the Delete button as needed. Otherwise, hope you find the list helpful, informative and at least sometimes fun. Wendy On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Karen Allen <kallena...@msn.com> wrote: > Whatever purpose this listserv originally had, it has transitioned into > being University City's version of Hyde Park Speaker's Corner, where anyone > can climb atop a soapbox and speak his or her mind; a neighborhood sounding > board, for good or for ill. I admit that this listserv can be tough > sometimes, but that reflects the different personalities who live in the > neighborhood, and the various issues that have arisen. > > Since I became a member in 2004, this list has communicated about national > topics such as: terrorism, the war in Iraq/Afganistan, Bush, Obama, the 2004 > and 2008 elections; local issues like: crime alerts, lost pets, job > opportunities, public schools, zoning, property taxes, local history; > contentious issues like community association politics, the role of the > University of Penn in this community, and its efforts to advance > often unpopular taxation and development issues; and cultural issues like > theaters, new restaurants, etc. And yes, it also communicates the political > opinions of community members. > > I have a number of sources of information that I read or watch every day > for national, political and regional news. For neighborhood news, I read > this and other listservs as regularly as I watch MSNBC and Channel 10, or > read Newsweek, the Daily News or Philadelphia Weekly. > > ------------------------------ > From: georgia...@aol.com > Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:01:45 -0500 > Subject: [UC] Purpose of this list? > To: univcity@list.purple.com > > > > Hi, > I have recently joined this list to get information about University City > and concerns about living here. However it seems to be being used as a > platform for individuals personal political beliefs and prejudices. I am > confused. Is this really the purpose of this list? > > Georgia >
