> On 18 Apr 2017, at 3:14 pm, Jeremy Rowley via Public <[email protected]> > wrote: > > What is the strained interpretation? Seems logical to me. I also disagree > that the energy can be better spent. This is a good exercise and shows that > regardless of the ballot outcome, we should fix the confusion in bylaw > wording. > > The argument is about the process at this point is more interesting than the > results. We can’t maintain discipline about the process if we can’t figure > out what the process even is.
If it helps, I think I’ve figured out why different people are interpreting this differently. A technical person will read “Public Mail List” as meaning a server, a web site and e-mail relay. A non-technical person will read it as meaning a list, of people or e-mail addresses. You can read the whole document with each of these meanings in your head and never once hit a definite contradiction, although it’s clear that different bits of the document were written by people with different ideas about what it meant; compare "The Chair will notify both the Member Mail List and the Public Mail List of the approval” in 2.3(i)(A) with "all such separate list-servs must be managed in the same fashion as the Public Mail List” in 5.3. But ‘submitting’ something to a server is the meaning of 'submit’ that is 'to present or propose to another for review, consideration, or decision’ and allows the server to reject it, while ‘submitting’ something to a list of people is the other meaning of ‘submit’, ‘to deliver formally’, and you haven’t delivered it if it didn’t arrive. So, you’re all right and you’re all wrong, I hope that helped! A bigger problem we have is that we have no way to resolve this issue. There has been a vote, and it either passed or it didn’t, and the bylaws are ambiguous on which is the case. So I think that what we need most of all is a resolution mechanism. One simple one is to say that the Chair’s ballot count is definitive.
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