response 36 of 109:

Mar 27 01:38 UTC 2004

(cyklone, I recommend to your attention Gerry Spence's book "How to Argue
and Win Every Time."  I think you would find it useful.  I know that I
am finding it so.)

edina, as I said at the time, I think item *authors*, the people who enter
the item into the conferencing system, have the right and should have the
power to remove their item at any time, no matter who has responded to it,
and when the item is removed, the responses should be removed as well.
Therefore, I had no problem with valerie removing her 'baby diary' items.

The outrage over her action convinced me that things were different here.
So I waited to see what the membership wanted.  I also argued for accepting
her actions.

BTW, I felt that her decision NOT to remove Item 39, when jp2 requested
it, demonstrated that my view was not as generally accepted as I expected.

The recently approved proposal on item deletions will, in my opinion,
forestall a recurrence because it has made explicit what many implicitly
accepted and expected.