[Vision2020]A question for all - What's right/wrong with this picture?

[Tbertruss at aol.com]

Mark et. al.

Some on V2020 privately e-mailed and indicated they could not view your 
recent V2020 post with that long list of e-mail addresses.  Do you realize you are 
sending content in some of your V2020 posts that can tie up a slow dial-up 
connection for a period of time?  This is not recommended, considering how many 
V2020 subscribers use dial-up, unless the content is essential to your point, 
and I do not think your business logo, or whatever you chose to call it, and 
the special "background" in your post, which both take extra bandwidth to load, 
is essential, unless you are trying to use V2020 to promote your business.

It's simple to forward a V2020 post to whomever you wish, and not reveal to 
V2020 a list of e-mail addresses that contains addresses not subscribed to 
V2020.  Some of the e-mail addresses in your long list of e-mail addresses you 
sent to V2020 were already subscribed to V2020 anyway, so they got two copies of 
your post.  

There is also the "suppressed list" of e-mail addresses method of sending 
e-mails to long lists of addresses, which blocks everyone on the list from seeing 
all the other addresses on the list, but I have never done this.

Regarding the "problems" with V2020, it is unmoderated, and open to the 
public, so some content will inevitably reflect this "public square soapbox" 
freedom for whoever wants to speak.  This is to be expected.  Those who look down 
their noses at this process of open democracy, with all the raucous, loud and/or 
irrelevant noises inherent, might consider the possible elitism implied in 
this attitude

Some of the discussions on the V2020 list, even with all its faults, actually 
provide a more in depth look at some community issues than our local 
newspaper provides.  The recent school bond levy was discussed at a level of detail 
and fact that I did not see present in the local press.  Of course along with 
the critical information and arguments was a lot of back and forth disputation 
of a contentious, perhaps nonsensical and/or ego driven nature.

But the fact that anyone with concerns about the school levy could post to 
V2020 actually allowed for a very broad range of arguments both pro and con to 
surface.

This is to be applauded, I think, rather than to suggest the V2020 discussion 
of this issue was a failure.

Ted Moffett
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