[Web4lib] Mobenzi > Mobile-Phone-Based Empowerment

[John Fereira]

Wilfred Drew wrote:
> Even my blackberry has a delete key.

The "if you don't like it, just delete it" arguement has been used for 
years regarding spam, commercial solicitations, and phishing scams.  I 
think it's pretty clear how effective that approach has been.

I'll also agree that I've found a few interesting  bits of informations 
from Gerry's messages (mostly the mobile use for international 
agriculture development space) but also wish that I didn't see several 
copies.

Posting announcements on email lists has been a peeve for me for awhile. 
  We have several event calendars where I work and although there has 
been talk for years about a consolidated campus wide event calendar, 
it's never going to be effective as long as those that want to announce 
and event or something else to a wide audience send them to as many 
email lists as they can think of.  I'll oven receive 3-4 copies of the 
same message from different lists, and then someone on one of those 
lists will think "everyone on this other list I read should see this" 
and will forward it along (of course I probably read that other list as 
well).  Then there will be event reminders sent to all of the lists as 
well.

I don't know what the answer is, but it's not a technical solution.


> Wilfred (Bill) Drew, M.S., B.S.,   Assistant Professor.                   Librarian.                                          TC3    Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Walter McGinnis <walter at katipo.co.nz>
> Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 19:50:26 
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org<web4lib at webjunction.org>
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Mobenzi > Mobile-Phone-Based Empowerment
> 
> 
> On Feb 2, 2010, at 12:43 PM, B.G. Sloan wrote:
> 
>>  
>> I've been on Web4Lib for almost 15 years now. I tend to think of it as a community, and sometimes communities need to work out troublesome issues in public. I think that's healthy.
>>  
>> Of course the discussions shouldn't go overboard and degenerate into flame wars, but discussion about list etiquette can be a good thing. If some people are tired of this thread, they're free to delete the postings unread.
>>  
>> Bernie Sloan 
>>
> 
> I agree with Bernie.  In fact I started to write a similar response several times, but couldn't quite get it right.  Thanks Bernie for putting it succinctly.
> 
> Cheers,
> Walter
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