Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:56:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: N Lynch <sfbookfan at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Important question about the Minutes
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

--- "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> wrote:
> I'm still working on the minutes of the last
> meeting, which lasted a near-record 97 minutes.
>
> There was discussion of moving our First Friday
> meeting place.  If you
> took part in that discussion, and don't want to be
> identified by name
> for fear of retaliation, please email me privately.
> (Sending to the list would defeat the purpose.)  I
will then
> attribute your remarks to "anonymous."
>
> Please respond soon, as I hope to have the minutes
> done tomorrow.

I'm very disturbed by making remarks, which one is
lead to believe to be hateful about another member,
attributed to "anonymous."  It makes the minutes
inaccurate - I don't see someone unknown coming by to
say something - and insulting to those who will be
reading it, as if they were too stupid to know who
dislikes them.  It also puts those who were at the
meeting in the position to lie about remarks made.

If a person does not have the guts to be identified in
public with words said in public, then they should
request that the remarks be withdrawn from the record.
 And the request should be honored as we all say
things we either regret or can't stand behind.  We all
make mistakes or find what we might have said is not
the most politic of remarks.  If the move to change
the VA meeting place is because some people hate Lee,
then be honest enough with the rest of the club to say
so.

Living in Washington, one would think people would
know about talking in public.   "Anonymous" indeed.

Nicki

"The man who enters a library is in the best society this world affords; the good and the great welcome him, surround him, and humbly ask to be allowed to become his servants."  -Andrew Carnegie
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