Amen!!!

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>From:  Research Administration Discussion
>Group[SMTP:xxxxxx@health.state.ny.us]
>Sent:  Wednesday, April 09, 1997 8:57 AM
>To:    Multiple recipients of list RESADM-L
>Subject:       Re: ...a comment
>
>I don't think this discussion is a waste.  Issues of practice and courtesy
>in electronic media are not unimportant.  In this case, I disagree with you.
>Everyone is entitled to their private opinions and the private expression of
>those, but these should not be confused with or interchangable with
>professional or public statements or assessments.  Whether you regard the
>comments as derogatory or not (I think that the way they were made certainly
>was and probably the intent as well), we have a professional responsibility
>(at a minimum) to suit the content and manner of statement to the audience,
>or the message to the medium - private is not public.  I can see no reason
>why e-mail's ease and informality should lesson this responsibility.
>
>
>>At the risk of wasting any more bandwidth on a message that was obviously
>>not
>>for public consumption, could I just comment that there is another
>>interpretation.  There was nothing derogatory said.  If, for example,
>>opinions
>>were being gathered whether this person were experienced enough to chair a
>>professional organization's nominating committee -- that could be a fair
>>assessment of someone with more limited experience than the sender.  I think
>>it is inaccurate to conclude that the comments were pejorative.    E-mail,
>>with its telegraph style, sending errors, reduced editing, the human
>>distance
>>evoked, affords ample opportunity to practice grace with our colleagues!
>>
>>Celia Walker   [xxxxxx@vines.colostate.edu]
>>Director, Regulatory Compliance
>>Colorado State University
>>970/491-1563     FAX:  970/491-1958
>>
>>
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