Hopefully we've discussed this enough this week that people will start
to learn the rule of "it should always be on the dev@ list unless
there's a specific reason to use the private@ list", and that will be
sufficient for the time being.
On 7/7/2011 2:01 PM, Rob Weir wrote:
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton<[email protected]> wrote:
-1 on that part. Please God, treat us like adults here.
The analogy I had in mind was to official government committees and
boards in my state, where they are required to conduct their business
in public. But they have the ability to enter a private "executive
session". But before they may do so they must first state the reason
why they are doing so, and that reason must be taken from a list of
pre-defined statutory exceptions, for example, when dealing with
personnel matters. This helps prevent misuse of executive session.
Although there are exceptions, most elected officials in Massachusetts
behave like adults, even when they need to declare why they are
conducting business in private.
Wow - where in MA do you live? ;-> Sure, we have a number of great
elected officials in my home town, but we also have a few doozies as
well who don't always behave that well! One of our boards simply uses
the same exact explanation of 5 different reasons every time - and the
chair used to be a *really* fast talker, so it always sounded like the
old Federal Express commercials.
- Shane
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob Weir
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 08:45
To: [email protected]
Subject: Regarding the PPMC's Private List
[ ... ]
2) I wonder whether it would be a good idea, at least while the PPMC
is still growing and we're getting up to speed, for all notes to the
ooo-private list to be prefaced by a sentence explaining why the
private list is needed for that message. For example, "I am using the
private list because this is account request email contains a members
personal email address". Thinking out loud like this could help
reinforce the proper use of that list, and would also make the reasons
of any mistaken uses more obvious and correctable.
-Rob
