Re: Robert's rules (Re: [ga] Blockage/delay of postings)

[Joe Baptista <baptista@pccf.net>]

Yes - Robert's rules are the answer.  I would even trust William Walsh as
chair if he was restricted by roberts rules of order.  They are tried and
true as a legislative framework - we'll need a voting booth of course, and
eventually the NC will be trashed as so much muffin meat.

Time to empower the people Harald - don't be scared.  If I can live with
Roberts rules - so can you.


Regards
Joe Baptista

On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:

> At 02:19 06.01.00 -0500, Joe Baptista wrote:
> >Exactly Karl - and this is not the place for a censored list - we are a
> >general assembly - time for roberts rules of order.
> 
> It would be interesting to attempt to conduct business on a mailing list 
> under Robert's Rules of Order.
> Quote from http://www.constitution.org/rror/rror-07.htm#43
> 
> "Disorderly words should be taken down by the member who objects to them, 
> or by the secretary, and then read to the member. If he denies them, the 
> assembly shall decide by a vote whether they are his words or not. If a 
> member cannot justify the words he used, and will not suitably apologize 
> for using them, it is the duty of the assembly to act in the case. If the 
> disorderly words are of a personal nature, after each party has been heard, 
> and before the assembly proceeds to deliberate upon the case, both parties 
> to the personality should retire, it being a general rule that no member 
> should be present in the assembly when any matter relating to himself is 
> under debate."
> 
> If this is taken to mean that any member of the GA list calling another 
> member a liar is unsubscribed from the GA list until his words have been 
> debated, the GA list could become a rather quiet place.
> 
> See also rules #72 and #73, same source.
> 
> I don't believe this is appropriate for a mailing list, due to the 
> multistranded nature of mailing list discussions, but those who ask for 
> Robert's rules of order should be ready to accept the consequences.
> 
>                      Harald
> 
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> Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
> Harald.Alvestrand@edb.maxware.no
>