response 3 of 33:

Jul 22 19:54 UTC 2000

Re #1:  How do you *overrule* a non-action?

There's a false dichotomy being pushed by some people who want
to go the way of M-Net; to them, it's all or nothing.  I've already
proposed something that is neither, and the membership has once
rejected the "all" option.  The fact that the issue was a little too
far-reaching to be decided by the Board alone is telling; for
the Board to go in and impose something without urgent need would
be precipitate, very un-Grexish as I understand it.

Call it what you will, every response in BBS is a contribution to a
collaborative work.  It's a gift, and taking a gift away again is
usually considered rude.  I do not think that we should ever make it
as easy and simple as entering something in the first place.  "Code
is law", and we ought to have some reasonable barrier in place to
force people to think about what they're doing before they make 
permanent holes in our collective history.

response 5 of 33:

Jul 23 05:20 UTC 2000

Another agenda item:  Dial-In reductions?

response 7 of 33:

Jul 23 21:20 UTC 2000

Okay, this is nitpicky and frivolous and so on, but:

Am I the only one who finds the phrase "Gavel Cessation" kinda weird here?
I mean, what precisely does this mean?

1) Eric is going to cease to bang the gavel.  Well, that would imply that
he had been banging it continually throughout the meeting, and only
stopped banging it now, for some amount of time greater than one tenth of
a second.  Possible, perhaps.  I've never been to a BoD meeting, so I
have no idea how gavel-banging is normally implemented.  But I'd imagine
that the rest of the attendees would find constant gavel-banging to be a
tad distracting, and might not take sudden silence as an
unambiguous sign that the meeting was over and they were free to
go.  Indeed, they might find themselves wanting to step outside long
before the "Gavel Cessation", for a brief respite from all the racket....

2) The gavel will cease to be.  That is to say, other will spend some amount
of time greater than one tenth of a second in causing the gavel's dramatic
demise.  Again, I've never attended so I have no way of knowing, but that
seems to me to not be the sort of thing one would want to advertise in
this sort of forum, not to mention that it would be difficult to do at
meeting after meeting.  (Hmm, perhaps we now see the real reason for the
gavel being played by the spoon at the last meeting...)

3) (a perhaps more liberal interpretation, but how I usually read it)
Eric will cease to be a gavel.  For at least a tenth of a second.

I realize that I am probably infringing on both Tradition and the
territory of the Official Grammar Police here, and I apologize to all
concerned.  But this vexes me every time I read the agenda for a new
meeting, and I just needed to get it off my chest...

response 9 of 33:

Jul 23 22:02 UTC 2000

The "gavel cessation" terminology originated during my recent
reign as chairman, so I take full credit or blame for it,
whichever is appropriate.  The intended interpretation was
(1), but I encourage other interpretations.

response 11 of 33:

Jul 24 19:17 UTC 2000

GREX BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING

response 13 of 33:

Jul 25 05:51 UTC 2000

Shall I put that in next month's agenda as a separate item?
04)  25 min  Necro-Equo-Flagellation - all

response 15 of 33:

Jul 25 13:31 UTC 2000

I thought it was there as 06)     8-{)]

response 17 of 33:

Jul 25 18:35 UTC 2000

Whose ox is being gored?  Whose dead horse is being beaten?  LOL at #7!  :-)

response 19 of 33:

Jul 26 02:19 UTC 2000

Only Sara would have been able to get away with that. :)

*ALL* of the dead horses were beaten.  Quite a lot, in fact.  Repeatedly. 
It was one big glue factory.

response 21 of 33:

Jul 26 15:45 UTC 2000

So the skeleton in your closet is that of a [beaten] dead horse?  ;-)

response 23 of 33:

Jul 26 15:59 UTC 2000

Sorry, it has been ordained that you can only ask about the *results* of the
board meeting in the obligatory follow up "minutes" item.  Couldn't have
everything in one item, you see...