Open Space / Open List / The Public Domain

[Therese Fitzpatrick]

There is often a tone in your posts Michael that gives me the impression you
are overbearing and dismissive of opinions other than your own.  Is it
intention on your part to be unkind?

>From: Michael Herman <mherman at globalchicago.net>
>Reply-To: OSLIST <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
>To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
>Subject: Re: Open Space / Open List / The Public Domain
>Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 21:24:07 -0600
>
>re: delete...
>
>it must be technically possible, i suppose, to delete all of one
>person's postings. but it would diminish us all. and it would never
>be
>able to flush out all the quotings of those messages. as we have had
>all
>these years of service for the grand total of $0.00, thanks to
>murli's
>good vision and good gifting, i wouldn't want to go back and make
>any
>more trouble than we have to. of course, there is always passion
>bounded
>by responsibility: you all have a delete button in front of you now!
>use
>it as you need to... it's the law of "one click and it's private
>forever" <grin> thanks, m
>
>
>
>
>Therese Fitzpatrick wrote:
>
>>I think of my online list serv communications on a par with verbal
>>communication. Things I post online are akin, in my thinking, to
>>things I
>>say with my voice in face to face conversations. I do not control
>>my
>>words
>>once they are verbalized and I do not control my thoughts/ideas
>>once they
>>are posted. We can come up with many structures to attempt to
>>control how
>>our ideas/words/thoughts are interpreted by another. . . but no
>>matter
>>what
>>structures we adopt, the mercurial quicksilver reality of ideas
>>will
>>remain
>>ephemeral. Even if we privatize the archives of this list,
>>something I do
>>not think we should do, we will not control the combustion of
>>thinking or
>>the context of another person's use of our ideas. I don't quite
>>think of
>>open space as a technology. . . I think of it as an explanation for
>>how
>>things actually work, as opposed to the illusion that form and
>>structure
>>could control the nature of reality. If open space is a good
>>explanation of
>>how things work then efforts to privatize thinking is, in the very
>>big
>>picture, and in my humble opinion(IMHO), absolutely futile.
>>
>>Given my beliefs about the nature of reality and the relativity of
>>time and
>>space, I don't think it matters if the archives for this list are
>>open or
>>closed BUT I have a suggestion. Would it be possible to give people
>>the
>>ability to delete their posts? A delete function might give people
>>a
>>different sense of safety on this list. . . and such a function
>>would be,
>>IMHO, akin to the law of two feet.
>>
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