In a message dated: Mon, 20 May 2002 16:27:14 EDT Ben Boulanger said:
>That being said, a charter -can- sometimes be unnecessary - when a group >is small, when a group is made up of friends, or any number of other >reasons. While some of those reasons may be true for the gnhlug lists, >some certainly won't be. I'm the new guy here, so I'll only offer what I >do know: It's helped in other cases, similar to gnhlug. It's also >needlessly restricted others. If the charter is reasonable and not held >as hard rules and regulations, it could certainly be a nice thing to have. Well, I think the first thing to realize is that with GNHLUG, there's nothing we consider to be a "hard rule" or "regulation". We're about as dis-organized and free-style as you can get and still be called an "organization" (and I do use that term quite loosely :) At the very least something like this might give us something to point new members to. There are definitely things which, had a new user known ahead of time, probably would have saved them an embarrassing post and/or the receipt of flames from people. Of course, since there really isn't anything listed anywhere for them to look at, they don't know what they're getting into sometimes. Is it worth taking a stab at drafting a trial run of a charter or "Rules of GNHLUG" type doc? -- Seeya, Paul ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
