Givens re egroups

[Diane Gibeault]

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 community of people that we know
have some understanding of what we may be talking about...may sound
pretty weird to many web browsers who have not a clue or little basic
information. There is a vulnerability in thingking out loud, attaching
your name to it and sending to an address that could be: "The world".
In OS, participants usually have a general idea of who's there, and if
they feel safe, that it's the right people, they open up their passion
to the group, knowing that there might be "a few strangers" - but
strangers will not form the majority of the group.

Who's there on the egroup (web accessed) will no longer be answerable it
seems. Like Michelle, I acknowledge that once something is on email,
there is no garantee. That is already taken into consideration. But
talking to a group you know has been following the conversation an
talking to "G " knows who? makes for a different dialogue.

I don't know how far we are down the path to a no return but I thought I
would no longer be a silent whose consent is concluded to be implicit.


Diane Gibeault

Michelle Cooper wrote:

Since this seems to be proceeding anyway, is it time to relook at the
givens
of this list, e-group, whatever?  How are we opening and creating safe
space
in the new format? I realize that anything we put out here in writing is
a
risk and might be used by anyone in any way. There have been some deeply

personal conversations and sharing on the list, which is part of the
richness. Did we say up front conversations would be archived and posted
to
a web site? Would this have made a difference to people?
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: dgp.vcf
Type: text/x-vcard
Size: 265 bytes
Desc: Card for Diane Gibeault
URL: <http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20000628/a7e5ac51/attachment-0017.vcf>