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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Incorporated (QCOM)
QCOM 174.10+0.4%9:40 AM EST

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To: JMD who wrote (5800)11/28/1997 11:14:00 PM
From: Duane L. Olson  Read Replies (1) of 152472
 
Mike; .Harassment on the SI (Con't). Management is interested/concerned, and solicits our suggestions. So I am going to start gathering them:
Data:
1. One SI interest is in maintaining a free flow of information, so when I inquired if a person could prevent another from sending messages to him, personally, their response was:
...
This is a tougher issue that we've given a lot of thought to (and will continue to think about). It's difficult to come up with a mechanism that doesn't lead to further abuse. For example, someone could then flame an individual to a third person and prevent the flamed individual from responding (and defending himself/herself). Another situation occurs when 20 bulls on a thread want to silence a lone bear. All 20 individuals could block the bear from responding.
We do not want to be heavy-handed or stifle the free-flow of discussion.

2. The second case I inquired about was one of unwanted, direct, personal abuse. This is clearly a no-no, and the response was:
If it is a very clear issue of personal harassment, then please write the webmistress@techstocks.com and it will be looked at.
3. Finally, the issue isn't closed. The last SI comment was:
. We're always open to suggestions as well!
Please give me your thoughts on how I should best proceed -- with the objective that we will offer SI Management a set of suggestions which will effectively deal with the issue of Harassment on the SI (Presumably without destroying their business operations <g> )
I'll copy Tom in on this... please feel free to solicit comments from anyone else that you think could offer positive, constructive options...
Thanks very much for you help, Mike!!


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