[il-talk] Soliciting on Il-Talk

[Deborah Kent Stein]

Thank you, Bob!  Beautifully stated.

Debbie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Gardner" <rgardner4 at gmail.com>
To: "il-talk" <il-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 2:55 PM
Subject: [il-talk] Soliciting on Il-Talk


> Hi Everyone
>
> Well, I guess as list moderator I need to wade in again.
>
> First of all, I think everyone knows Il-Talk is for communication among us 
> on topics related to blindness.  Certain types of posts such as ones of a 
> sexual nature; ones promoting political views, either personal or party; 
> and ones promoting one’s religious views are considered inappropriate. 
> Such posts are not blindness-related, and if one wants to write such 
> posts, they need to find another forum other than Il-talk.
>
> Secondly, soliciting -- when related to blindness -- has never been 
> considered inappropriate to Il-Talk.  We have condoned people posting 
> messages where they want to buy or sell equipment in the blindness field. 
> Just several days ago, I forwarded a message to Il-Talk relating to the 
> release of JAWS 15.  That was a solicitation from Freedom Scientific, but 
> still something falling within the bounds of our list serve.  And there 
> have been instances where members of the NFBI, if associated with a 
> private company in the blindness field, have been allowed to post 
> bulletins from those private companies.
>
> Thirdly, I see nothing wrong with the post from Leslie Hamric sent out 
> this morning.  She was forwarding information about an attorney with an 
> understanding of disabilities.  Most of all – to me – it appears Leslie is 
> associated or maybe even working with this attorney.  When we have over 
> 70% unemployment in the blind community, why would we want to stifle 
> information that could promote a working situation for one of our members?
>
> Finally, it would be nice in the future if someone who feels that a post 
> to Il-Talk is inappropriate would contact me first.  It’s no fun to see 
> Il-Talk turned into a ping-pong match of snarly messages flying back and 
> forth.
>
> Bob Gardner
> Il-Talk moderator
> rgardner4 at gmail.com
> 309-236-6606
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