Re: [ga] Reform in the GA?

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 05:12:20PM -0800, William X. Walsh wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I am writing as a member of this GA, and as a member of an
> organization whose leader is now claiming that one thing that
> organization has accomplished is a "turning of the GA of the DNSO
> around."

I remember a day not long past when Joe Baptista was making up obscene 
limricks and posting them to the list.  Relative to that, the GA has 
indeed been "turned around".

> I find it odd that anyone who is a member of this assembly can think
> that this assembly has been turned around in a positive fashion, when
> in fact this GA assembly has not been able to accomplish anything as a
> cohesive body.

That is not its function.  It was explicitly never intended to be a 
decision making body.  There are some who think that is what it should 
be, but that is not what it is.

> It can't even initiate elections to replace a GA Chair
> whose office long ago expired.  It has been unable to even agree on a
> set of principles to put forward for giving itself a real role in the
> organization.

It has a role; it's just not the role you want it to have.

> So I'd like to know what the other GA members think.
> 
> Has there been a "turning of the GA" around?
> 
> I have to say that the credibility of the person who made this claim
> took a nose dive when he claimed that the IDNO was responsible for
> this so called "turning" around that doesn't appear to have ever
> occurred.

How quickly we forget...

-- 
Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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