[226] in UA Senate
Re: Recording of mailing list discussions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Dehnert)
Thu Oct 29 13:39:23 2009
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:39:02 -0400
From: Alex Dehnert <adehnert@MIT.EDU>
To: Quentin Smith <quentin@MIT.EDU>
CC: Catherine Olsson <catherio@MIT.EDU>, UA Senate <ua-senate@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0910291255490.18108@dr-wily.mit.edu>
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Quentin Smith wrote:
> 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
>>
