[224] in UA Senate
Re: Recording of mailing list discussions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Quentin Smith)
Thu Oct 29 12:56:46 2009
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:56:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Quentin Smith <quentin@MIT.EDU>
To: Catherine Olsson <catherio@mit.edu>
cc: UA Senate <ua-senate@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4AE9BE23.7080506@mit.edu>
Discussion on ua-senate@ and ua-exec@ gets archived at
http://diswww.mit.edu/charon/ua-senate/
and
http://diswww.mit.edu/charon/ua-exec/
ua-senate-members@ and ua-exec-members@ are not archived.
--Quentin
UA Chief of Information Technology
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Catherine Olsson wrote:
> Hi all,
> Jonte asked me the good question today of "does all the discussion on the
> mailing list get recorded somehow?", and I'd thought I'd mirror my response
> here for others who have the same question, and for those who might have a
> better answer to also chime in.
>
> As far as I can tell, discussions we have here on the mailing list won't turn
> up in any official records unless we reference them in meetings (which will
> appear in the minutes) or turn our ideas into legislation.
>
> Thus I recommended to Jonte, and recommend to any of you who have the same
> question, that if you think it's important that future generations understand
> some portion of the reasoning and context behind what we're discussing (a lot
> of which goes on in the mailing list) you can preface any remarks you make in
> Senate with "As we discussed on the mailing list, <context>." before making
> whatever point you have.
>
> Just a thought =)
> - Catherine, Random Hall Senator
>
