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Re: [ga] Final draft of proposed mailing list rules
I thought that membership in the GA was defined as this list as well as
several others, including the Working Groups? At least that's what I
recall from the election.
Does the definition of "GA" change depending upon whether the NC wants
ghosts to nominate candidates?
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Ellen Rony wrote:
> On 1/18/00, William X. Walsh wrote:
>
> >This doesn't affect their membership, they are free to resubscribe when their
> >email is working again. This is standard list behavior to temporarily remove
> >addresses when their email is bouncing, because the each bounce results in
> >messages to the list administrator.
>
> Yes, I understand the purpose of this but the problem is that the GA is
> defined by the Names Council as membership on this list, so individual
> membership would be effectively terminated whenver there is a technical
> problem at the ISP or routing end and would require an affirmative action
> on the part of the listmember to rejoin the GA by resubscribing.
>
> Isn't there a technical way that a subscriber can be placed on temporary
> (say one week hold) while routing problems are resolved, without requiring
> the individual to resubscribe and without bogging the list down with
> bounced messages? If that is possible, I think its a preferable mechanism
> for handling this type of problem. If not, then the Names Council has to
> rethink its definition of the GA, because said membership would just
> disappear if a major routing problem or outage occurred.
>
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