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

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Bradley and everybody else,

  I was not aware that there were such things as ghosts!  This is a
chalderns fear mongering or overactive imagination.

David "Dude" Jenson
INEGRoup-East Director

In a message dated 1/18/00 2:22:46 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
idno@tallship.net writes:

<< 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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 --Bradley D. Thornton MCSE; MCT.--  , bootstrap  of
 the Cyberspace Association,
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