Please keep in mind that not everyone has an institutional affiliation, and
even people who do might prefer to use a non-institutional address so that
the address they use to interface with code4lib remains stable even as
their institutional affiliation changes, especially if they're in a term
appointment or temporary/contingent labor situation where they cannot
expect long tenure (regrettably common).

Personally I'm also quite content with consistent pseudonyms, but I'm happy
to defer to the community on that one if there's a consensus to the
contrary. Requiring institutional affiliation has larger philosophical and
practical challenges and I would not be comfortable with that.

On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 11:07 AM Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On Jul 11, 2019, at 4:09 PM, Kate Deibel <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > For people who lack either github or git knowledge and don't want to
> just try to read the diff outputs, here are the links you need...
> >
> > --
> > Katherine Deibel | PhD
> > Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian
> > Syracuse University Libraries
> > T 315.443.7178
> > [log in to unmask]
> > 222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244
> > Syracuse University
>
>
> One thing I hope to see in the revision/update to our codes-of-conduct is
> in regards to signatures; personally, I think each posting to the mailing
> list ought to be non-anonymous.
>
> With the advent of some sort of new SMTP enhancement called DMARC, it is
> possible to post to LISTSERV applications (like ours) and have your email
> address obfuscated, like above. This is apparently a feature. [0] Yes,
> direct replies to an address like
> [log in to unmask] do make it back to the
> original sender, but without some sort of signature can be very difficult
> to know to whom one is replying.
>
> I think any poster to the mailing ought to be easily identifiable. One
> ought to be able to easily know the name of the poster, their affiliation,
> and their email address. Such makes things: 1) more transparent, and 2)
> lends credibility to the post. Even if I don't sign this message you can
> see that my name is Eric Morgan, I work for Notre Dame, and my address is
> [log in to unmask] The posting above works because there is/was a full
> signature. Postings from [log in to unmask] are difficult to
> swallow but I can live with them. But postings from EM <
> [log in to unmask]> with no signature I think
> are not respectful. Remember, "On the Internet, nobody knows you are a
> dog." [1]
>
> [0] dmarc - https://www.lsoft.com/news/dmarc-issue1-2018.asp
> [1] dog -
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_you're_a_dog
>
> --
> Eric Morgan
> University of Notre Dame
>
> 574/631-8604
>


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