Re: [ga] observations from the peanut gallery

["William S. Lovell" <wsl@cerebalaw.com>]

"William X. Walsh" wrote:

Hello William,

Wednesday, July 18, 2001, 11:10:54 PM, William S. Lovell wrote:
> Chairs do not abandon their rights to do so just by accepting that office. Any
> member of the GA could be a PROPONENT of anything that the GA is
> willing to consider, I should think.

Yes, but they shouldn't (ab)use their position to advocate for it. By
posting messages using the name of their "Title" in the from address
of messages supporting their proposals and positions.
 

Although I myself don't see much in the way of "(ab)use" here -- most of
us will
know who Danny Younger and Patrick Corliss are, whether the titles
are there
or not, but then again newly arrived folks may not know that,
so technically you
are probably correct and I'd have to agree with you to that extent. 
However,
this does not say that either of them would be precluded from "using"
the title:
the position(s) of a Chair or Alternate Chair as such on some
ISSUE is something
that the rest of us would want to know. (Would this be something like
noting when
or when not the Pope was speaking ex cathedra?)

Bill

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