But did he say “please don’t tell anybody who I am or where I teach?” This is completely orthogonal to the question of preventing comments from LWers, aggrieved or otherwise.
No, but it is a closed list and the public materials are, as you noted, apparently sanitized. What is the reasonable inference?
and I might very well have done so, since Luke’s post does not contain any instruction to the contrary!
Indeed; Luke is perhaps lacking in discretion, or someone passed the URL on to him without also passing on the request.
No, but it is a closed list and the public materials are, as you noted, apparently sanitized. What is the reasonable inference?
I have no idea. It just looks like bizarre crypticness to me; like there’s some inside joke that I’m not in on.
If it is a closed list, then why is it being posted to LW? And especially, why is it being posted without acknowledgment of the fact that the source was a closed list?
The fact that the list itself is closed is not a good argument by itself not to post the link given that the link is to a public and easily accessible website. However, it probably would have made sense of it had included the request not to the post to the blog.
The post should have included an explanation of the lack of information (e.g. “the instructor posted this to a private mailing list that I subscribe to, and does not wish himself or his institution to be identified”—if this is in fact the case; otherwise, the information should have been included).
Luke is perhaps lacking in discretion, or someone passed the URL on to him without also passing on the request.
He really should edit the OP to contain the “please don’t comment on the class blog” instructions.
I’m already imagining a foaming at the mouth angry LWer vivisecting with sadistic glee a post of a poor freshman yelling at him “how dare you say you like us for the wrong reasons!”. And once LWers see one such comment, the scent of blood will drive them into a commenting frenzy.
My model of typical LWers disagrees. I don’t think the student comments there look like tempting targets even to those among us who like to correct people.
No, but it is a closed list and the public materials are, as you noted, apparently sanitized. What is the reasonable inference?
Indeed; Luke is perhaps lacking in discretion, or someone passed the URL on to him without also passing on the request.
I have no idea. It just looks like bizarre crypticness to me; like there’s some inside joke that I’m not in on.
If it is a closed list, then why is it being posted to LW? And especially, why is it being posted without acknowledgment of the fact that the source was a closed list?
Conspicuous secrecy is rude.
The fact that the list itself is closed is not a good argument by itself not to post the link given that the link is to a public and easily accessible website. However, it probably would have made sense of it had included the request not to the post to the blog.
The post should have included an explanation of the lack of information (e.g. “the instructor posted this to a private mailing list that I subscribe to, and does not wish himself or his institution to be identified”—if this is in fact the case; otherwise, the information should have been included).
He really should edit the OP to contain the “please don’t comment on the class blog” instructions.
I’m already imagining a foaming at the mouth angry LWer vivisecting with sadistic glee a post of a poor freshman yelling at him “how dare you say you like us for the wrong reasons!”. And once LWers see one such comment, the scent of blood will drive them into a commenting frenzy.
My model of typical LWers disagrees. I don’t think the student comments there look like tempting targets even to those among us who like to correct people.
The typical LWer wouldn’t do this agreed, but there are plenty of LWers.
But no true LWer would do this.
[dons his kilt]