Re: Open Letter to ARN Listserve Moderator/Admin

[Cbgord@aol.com]

I agree that we should vote about whether to continue to allow one person  to 
continually disrupt the discussion here. His role is literally reactionary:  
every single comment over the years has been only in reaction to others, and  
always disparaging, disrespectful, teacher-bashing, and worse. 
 
However I object to blaming this problem we have as an  online community on 
our list administrator and attacking him for "sitting  on his can" and doing no 
work. That's not the problem. We simply have not taken  up this issue up in 
such a way as to even approach a collective decision  (however we try to do 
that) on what we want to do about this problem other than  grouse about it or 
repeatedly advise each individual subscriber to delete his  posts.
 
Craig Gordon
 
In a message dated 11/4/2007 3:09:58 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
pgutpgut@msn.com writes:

Count me  in.  I groan even as I delete the  emails, mostly unread, that are  
predictably a consummate waste of everyone's time.

Priscilla  Gutierrez
Outreach Specialist
New Mexico School for the  Deaf

...change is inevitable, growth is optional...


>  Subject: Re: [arn-l] Open Letter to ARN Listserve Moderator/Admin
>  Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 17:54:34 -0500
> From: jhorn@monmouth.edu
>  To: arn-l@interversity.org
>
> I think it is time for a vote, but  is that too democratic?
>
> Thanks, Leeila and  Clarence.
>
> Jim Horn
>
>
> -----Original  Message-----
> From: arn-l-owner@interversity.org on behalf of Leeila  and Clarence Bina
> Sent: Sun 11/4/2007 4:56 PM
> To:  arn-l@interversity.org
> Subject: Re: [arn-l] Open Letter to ARN  Listserve Moderator/Admin
>
> My long-long held view. Thanks for  the confirmation.
> CB
> PhD, ND
> Leeila & Clarence A.  Bina
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> ----- Original Message  -----
> From: "Jennifer Parker" 
> To: 
> Sent: Sunday,  November 04, 2007 1:53 PM
> Subject: [arn-l] Open Letter to ARN  Listserve Moderator/Admin
>
>
>
> Dear Listserve  Moderator/Administrator:
>
> Hello. You don't know me and I don't  know you. But since I've joined ARN
> I've read every listserve digest  and, therefore, have had the chance to
> observe your work daily. Or,  rather, your lack of work. I know Fair Test
> has little money and  you're probably not paid very much to monitor the
> listserve, so why  work very hard when you're paid so little? I understand.
> You're like  that Wasserman guy who's sitting on his can while his 
co-workers
> work  hard at handing out bubble sheets. I know. You're an educator and you
>  believe strongly in free speech and informative dialogue so you  wouldn't
> dream of blocking someone's posts. But, please! I implore  you! If you see
> someone who repetitively and habitually takes members'  energy and talents
> away from reforming the American education system  and having constructive
> dialogue regarding reformation, please  consider doing just that. It's the
> right of every blog/listserve  moderator to consider and even act on banning
> someone from their  site.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jennifer C. Parker
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