roundtable: Re: MHEC-TEL

roundtable: Re: MHEC-TEL

Re: MHEC-TEL

Fred G Athearn (fga@world.std.com)
Fri, 27 Jan 1995 09:54:11 -0500 

Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 09:54:11 -0500
From: fga@world.std.com (Fred G Athearn)
Message-Id: <199501271454.AA19695@world.std.com>
To: fga@world.std.com, roundtable@cni.org
Subject: Re: MHEC-TEL


Jeff Williams (via Tod Gram) says:
>  
> Each of you is welcome (and encouraged) to tell your higher
> education collegues about the mhec-tel list and discuss its
> contents. However, MHEC wishes the list to remain "private"
> within the higher education community; commercial entities,
> such as equipment vendors, will not be allowed to join.
 
     Mr. Williams goes on to explain that MHEC was created
by an agreement among a number of State governments for, among
other purposes, to expand student access, support public policy
development, and promote economic growth through "industry
inovation."
 
     IMHO, given status and  such goals, the first order of
business for the new list should be to take a close look at
its policy as to who will be able to subscirbe.  If they realy
intend to have a list restricted to "higher education
colleagues" and excluding all those  associated with "commercial
entities" they will not only be setting a bad precedent for
telecommunications public policy, education policy, and economic
development, but also fooling themselves about the level of
privacy it is reasonable to expect using listerv.  Perhaps
making the list moderated would meet their needs without these
problems.
 
      cc: Jeff Williams <willi132@gold.tc.umn.edu>

Fred Athearn
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Bellows Falls
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