Re: [ga] Final draft of proposed mailing list rules

[Ellen Rony <erony@marin.k12.ca.us>]

>On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 Kent Crispin wrote:
>>
>Sorry, you misunderstand the intent.  The unfiltered list is not the
>"true record".

A true record of a mailing list is everything submitted to it--warts and
all.  A subset of that true record is any version that is monitored,
summarized or limited in some manner.

The historical archive (i.e., true record) would include all messages, not
just those that some gatekeeper(s) felt were relevant.  All
discussion--even that which is self-serving, uninformative, misleading,
misguided, inaccurate, repetitive, off-topic, outrageous, banal, and/or
boring--is part of the mailing list process and the true record.

People who have time constraints may prefer to use one of the subsets of
the true record, e.g., a moderated list, list digest, filtered recipient
list, or cherry-picked reading list.  None of these approaches represent
the true record.

Thus, the true record, or *untouched* mailing list, should be the one that
appears at ga@dnso.org.

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