Public Library Sued for NOT Filtering CORRECTION

Thomas Keene (LIS) keene at luna.cas.usf.edu
Mon Jun 1 12:54:28 EDT 1998


I would like to ask the list moderator(s) to NOT act too quickly in
censoring those that express opinions about others on the list. 
Librarians are not delicate flowers.  We can take the rough and tumble. 
Sometimes ideas or actions (and the individuals that espouse them) deserve
attack.  Defining someone with a derogatory term may not be at all out of
line.  Personal discomfort cannot be the borderline between discussion
that is allowable and that which isn't in this, or any other, serious
debate.

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     Tom Keene, Public Services Librarian           
     New Port Richey Public Library
     keene at luna.cas.usf.edu
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On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Roy Tennant wrote:

> I would like to remind all Web4Lib subscribers that messages which serve
> only to insult, antagonize and attack another individual will not be
> tolerated. For those of you to whom the Web4Lib Posting Policy comes as
> news, you can review it at:
> 
> http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/Web4Lib/#Policy
> 
> Violation of any point of the policy leads to one formal warning;
> following violations lead to permanent removal from the discussion. Thank
> you all for your cooperation.
> Roy Tennant
> Web4Lib Owner



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