Re: Obscene LM_NET email

[Shonda L Brisco <bshonda@OKSTATE.EDU>]

To Barbara and Peter,

     This is a case in which I feel very guilty for not reporting
immediately what I had initially seen when I first read the obscene
posting....the difference in the spelling of the name in the email and that
which was posted  on the return address screen.  I have always been very
careful to try to spell people's names correctly (partially because of my
own name--which is longer and more complex than I have listed here) and
usually double check names that are very unusual.  "Barbara's post" (which
I now see was not her own) showed that the last name on the letter sent and
the last name on the return address were not the same.
     I immediately began to write a note to Peter and the LM_NET listserv
to ask if anyone had checked on this difference before "judgment was made"
to restrict her.  I then decided to keep my nose out of other people's
business.  I now feel like I have witnessed a crime and could have done
something earlier to stop it but didn't.  If others reported the
difference, I appreciate your efforts to help.  I could not believe that
anyone (especially a professional) would post such a message and
immediately thought that perhaps a student had done it.  However, because I
did not know the original situation relating to the posting, I refrained
from stepping up to "defend someone."
     I hope that Barbara is allowed to continue to post and that we begin
to better understand the complex issues involved in monitoring a listserv.
To both Peter and Barbara, I apologize for not stepping up to ask a
question when it should have been asked.

Shonda Brisco
Assistant Professor
bshonda@okstate.edu

Mary L. Williams Curriculum Library
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK

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