Re: [ga] Message from the Chair - What Rules?

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Harald and all,

  What rules?  I think you mean "Haralds Proposed Rules" don't you?  >;)

Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:

> At 16:09 26.01.00 -0500, Alex Kamantauskas wrote:
>
> >  One guarantee that I would like is that when a person breaks the rules,
> >  the list be informed that the offender is going to be excluded.
>
>  From the rules:
>
> >Both sanctions are imposed for a limited period of time (typically 2
> >weeks), and are announced on the mailing list.
>
> >   I guess
> >  I'm just wary of the of the vagueness of "failure to behave" clause.  As
> >  a hypothetical example, say person A  holds a certain position, and the SAA
> >  (or SAAs) hold an opposite position, and person A is excluded, ostensibly
> >  for "failing to behave" but really because the SAA doesn't like their
> >  position.  If the list were informed by the SAA that "Person A is being
> >  excluded because of the following reasons", and its obvious that person A
> >  is being railroaded, than the resulting furor caused by that would be
> >  enough of a guarantee that some form of justice would be served.
>
> Undoubtedly. That's why I put it in there.
>
>                     Harald
>
> --
> Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
> Harald.Alvestrand@edb.maxware.no

Regards,

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