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cyklone
response 87 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jan 12 03:36 UTC 2004

See my proposal in #75, #90
naftee
response 88 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jan 12 06:01 UTC 2004

re 85 Then clearly they should become staff, since they're doing the staff's
job.
jep
response 89 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jan 12 19:10 UTC 2004

What needs to happen to bring this proposal to a vote?  I am not 
familiar with the procedure.

Thanks!
other
response 90 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jan 12 19:14 UTC 2004

item:coop,2  By-laws:

      ARTICLE 5:  VOTING PROCEDURES
 
  a.  Any member of Grex may make a motion by entering it as the
      text of a discussion item in a computer conference on Grex
      designated for this purpose.  The item is then used for
      discussion of the motion.  All Grex users may participate in
      the discussion.  No action on the motion is taken for two
      weeks.  At the end of two weeks, the author may then submit a
      final version for a vote by the membership.  The vote is
      conducted on-line over a period of ten days.

  b.  A motion will be considered to have passed if more
      votes were cast in favor than against, except as provided
      for bylaw amendments.

  c.  For voting purposes, a day will run midnight to midnight.  In
      the event of continuous system downtime of 24 hours or more,
      the voting period will be adjusted to compensate.
 
jep
response 91 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jan 12 19:30 UTC 2004

Thanks!

I grow very weary of this process and of the attacks, the bizarre 
attempts to circumvent what is going on, and of following the same 
discussion in 11 different items.

I am looking forward to this being over with.  I expect to then take a 
vacation from coop, and possibly even from Grex.  No, I won't be mass 
deleting responses from all of Grex or anything.  There is something 
wrong, though, when it requires this much effort, and discussion, and 
endurance, to make a simple request.  I didn't expect it and wasn't 
prepared for it, and I resent it.
gull
response 92 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jan 12 19:35 UTC 2004

It works the same for you as for everyone else, jep.
jp2
response 93 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jan 12 19:36 UTC 2004

This response has been erased.

jp2
response 94 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jan 12 19:36 UTC 2004

This response has been erased.

jep
response 95 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jan 12 21:46 UTC 2004

re resp:92: I have not been through this type of process before on 
Grex.  I haven't been through anything here with this level of attacks.

I've been through a similar process, when I was on Arbornet's Board of 
Directors, but I was elected to that.  I knew what I was getting into.

If you think it should be normal that a Grex member should go through 
all of these items, attacks, haranguing, difficulty, etc. as part of 
sending a request to the staff, well, I disagree.  That's what I did, 
and it's been a lot more difficult and distressing than what I had 
expected.

jp2: You're not worth responding to any more.
willcome
response 96 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jan 12 21:49 UTC 2004

jp2's and jep's spat is   

SAD
cyklone
response 97 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jan 12 21:55 UTC 2004

All actions have consequences. Some are unintended. Some are undesirable.
other
response 98 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jan 12 21:59 UTC 2004

Some are tasty.
gull
response 99 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jan 12 22:51 UTC 2004

Re resp:95: When you deliberately get a staff member to do something
that most other staff members feel is a violation of policy, I think you
can expect it to be controversial.
jmsaul
response 100 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jan 12 23:08 UTC 2004

John -- if you had followed Jan's advice and had the items temporarily removed
pending a membership vote, rather than taking his out-of-control wife's help
and getting them summarily deleted, you'd have a lot more friends on this
issue.
naftee
response 101 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jan 12 23:31 UTC 2004

re 95 They didn't start as "attacks".  They migrated.
jep
response 102 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jan 12 23:46 UTC 2004

re resp:100: No one suggested to me that the items be temporarily 
removed pending a member vote, until the items were already removed.  
*No one* spoke to me at *any* point, other than Valerie, until *after* 
the items were removed.

The Board and staff were carrying on a discussion about my request, in 
which I was not included, and about which I was not even informed for a 
day after I sent my request.  I heard about that from Valerie as well.

Can you go over again what it was I was supposed to do in order to 
retain goodwill among both the staff and membership?

I deny that I went outside of any reasonable expectation anyone could 
have of "the system".  My initial e-mail went to staff@grex.org.  So 
did my next message (after I had received not a *peep* by way of 
response, from *anyone*).  I worked within the system to the very best 
of my ability.  I'm doing so now.
jep
response 103 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jan 12 23:57 UTC 2004

Whups, one baff member had sent me a personal message, discussing 
personal matters related to my request but with no policy discussion of 
any kind, before the items were deleted.
gull
response 104 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jan 12 23:59 UTC 2004

You admitted in earlier responses that when you saw what valerie had
done, and that she was leaving, you realized you had a limited window in
which to get your items removed.  To me it sounds like you knew you were
taking advantage of a questionable loophole.
jep
response 105 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jan 13 00:14 UTC 2004

View hidden response.

jep
response 106 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jan 13 00:22 UTC 2004

My response resp:76 contains all of the e-mails between myself and 
staff members, discussing the deletion of my items, including all 
headers.  I sent the first one from Grex and then the rest from my 
account on M-Net.  My Grex e-mail is forwarded to M-Net.  Most of the e-
mails were included to either baff or staff

I have omitted the personal message I mentioned as it is of no value in 
this discussion.

All of my contact with the staff of Grex on the matter is included, in 
both directions.  I excluded a couple of lines of comments which would 
not affect this discussion.

An explanation of Valerie's suggestion that I just mass-delete my own 
responses... she sent it to me at 10:00 p.m.  Uncharacteristically for 
me, I had logged off for the night and gone to bed early.  I never got 
to respond to her suggestion before she deleted my items.
jep
response 107 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jan 13 00:24 UTC 2004

Whups, the e-mail thread is in my response resp:105, which was posted 
from Backtalk as a "hidden" response.  It's a bit lengthy., which is 
why I posted it as hidden.
willcome
response 108 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jan 13 00:25 UTC 2004

Expurgated.
jep
response 109 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jan 13 00:56 UTC 2004

To read from Picospan:

1) Get to the "Respond or pass?" prompt
2) Type "set noforget"
3) Type "only 105"
jmsaul
response 110 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jan 13 01:15 UTC 2004

Re #102:  If you want goodwill from those of us who think this was wrong,
          allow staff to restore your items, minus your responses.
cyklone
response 111 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jan 13 01:22 UTC 2004

What Joe said. That or get a legal opinion.
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