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.
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.
Link.
Given the positive reactions, I think the professor seeded them with a positive impression of the site's content.