RASC Hamilton - Members Only RASC - Inappropriate use of e-maillist

Fri Mar 23 17:43:25 EDT 2012

Ahhh.
That helps.
My concern was that Mr. Farfan might have thought his e-mail address was
being carelessly bandied about as you sometimes see in client based mailing
list programs. I did not see evidence of that sort of mistake and I wanted
there to be a balanced opinion shared so that if this was a mistaken
thought  and my assumptions were accurte then the effect of the comment did
not linger and cast doubt on the quality of Gary's hard work.

Having said that I also wanted to remain respectful of Mr. Farfan as I am
not familiar with him nor do I have direct knowledge of his experience.

Thank you Roger for the added insight.

On 23 March 2012 17:00, Roger Hill <Roger.Hill at hiteach.net> wrote:

> Ken:****
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> The difficulty has arisen because the “old” email system for the Hamilton
> Centre was not merely ported to a new server…changes were made to the
> intent of the lists.****
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> The “old” system had what was termed an “announce list”, and it was for
> use by the Hamilton Centre Board to inform members (current and former) of
> meetings, events, and Orbit being ready.  Mr. Farfan was on this list.****
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> The “old” system had a discussion list, where topics like this on could be
> discussed amongst the Hamilton Centre membership.   Mr. Farfan was NOT on
> this list.****
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> Mr. Farfan does not wish to be involved in discussions.****
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> Roger****
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> *From:* members-bounces at hamiltonrasc.ca [mailto:
> members-bounces at hamiltonrasc.ca] *On Behalf Of *Kenneth Owen
> *Sent:* Friday, March 23, 2012 4:26 PM
> *To:* members at hamiltonrasc.ca
> *Subject:* Re: RASC Hamilton - Members Only RASC - Inappropriate use of
> e-maillist****
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> I have been enjoying reading this thread in the members list for a few
> days now. I find it reassuring that there are so many people interested in
> the success of the club that they are willing to invest their time and
> energy into such a debate.
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> Mr. Farfan made a critical remark regarding privacy and based on the
> evidence I have been able to identify in my mail message headers and logs,
> I have not reached the same conclusions that he has.  From what I can see,
> the recipients of the members at hamiltonrasc.ca remain anonymous until we
> wish to reply.   So with all possible respect to Mr Farfan, I wanted to
> balance his contribution with an alternative observation. From my
> perspective I don't see a privacy issue.
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> On 23 March 2012 14:30, Andy Blanchard <atacamandy at hotmail.ca> wrote:****
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> Hi Frank this system although we are on a new server has been this way for
> at least ten years. We will discuss your comments at the next board
> meeting, but this list is for discussing astronomy, announcements and
> generally anything that people wish to discuss as long as its not
> offensive. I believe, but I will check with Gary Bennett when he returns
> that there is a condensed version that can be set up.
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> Andy Blanchard****
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> 905-465-2031H****
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> 905-847-7777B****
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> On 2012-03-23, at 12:56 PM, dalton.farfan at sympatico.ca wrote:****
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> To the Centre executive:
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> There is no need for all members to receiving all these communications &
> in my opinion it is completely inappropriate to be using the email list in
> this manner. Not only are these myriad emails clogging our email system but
> there may have been a breach of our privacy rights in disseminating our
> email address in the manner done. We wish to receive email announcements
> from the Centre/executive but not in a way which results in these blanket
> emails from the entire responding membership. Please make the appropriate
> adjustments to your email list, in respect of our email address at least,
> so as to correct this situation.
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> Best regards & happy skies to all,
> Frank Farfan
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> > To: members at hamiltonrasc.ca
> > From: glcolwell at cogeco.ca
> > Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:16:44 +0000
> > Subject: Re: RASC Hamilton - Members Only Last night...
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> > Me too!(Not frm Milton)
> > Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: scott barrie <barrie_62 at sympatico.ca>
> > Sender: members-bounces at hamiltonrasc.ca
> > Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:18:43
> > To: <members at hamiltonrasc.ca>
> > Reply-to: members at hamiltonrasc.ca
> > Subject: Re: RASC Hamilton - Members Only Last night...
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