ADMIN/MEMB: Damn. Scrubbing again.

[heiditandy]

--- In HP4GU-FAQ at yahoogroups.com, "Cindy C." <cindysphynx at c...> 
wrote, a while ago:

> The FAQ list already *has* a policy (we scrub if and when we bring 
in
> new members, and this is done to protect new members from reading
> embarrassing mentions of themselves). It works *fine.* We have 
never,
> *ever* had a problem with it, so far as I know. We rarely even 
need to
> *think* about it. No one has provided a single reason why the 
status
> quo needs to be disturbed.
> 
> I would like to keep the status quo intact and *move on,* myself.
> 


> Second, we must consider past messages in the archives that were
> written either: (1) by FAQers who had no idea that the archives 
would
> be scrubbed to delete insulting or offensive references to arriving
> members, or (2) by FAQers who *did* know that the archives would be
> scrubbed and made candid assessments in reliance on the belief that
> such remarks would be deleted before new FAQ members arrived.
> 


Cindy, I honestly think that Group Two would be limited to, well, 
you, at least for any posts made before May 30. 

Here's why I think this: 

On May 30 you posted about inviting new members in, and scrubbing 
the archives: 

<<Also, I haven't scrubbed
the archives yet. I doubt there's anything at all worth scrubbing,
but I do mean to check on that.>>
Post 1748

Now, I admit that I wasn't paying attention to ANYTHING at that 
point, given that I was in the middle of a nonstress test at the 
obstetrician as they decided whether to induce me that day or wait 
until Sunday night (for those who don't know, we waited until Sunday 
night). But nobody did reply then, so your argument that posts made 
after that were made with the knowledge that posts here are scrubbed 
has some veracity behind it. 

But before that, the only mention of SCRUB, SCRUBBING or SCRUBBED on 
this FAQ list was in reference to potatoes 
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HP4GU-FAQ/message/1491). So I do not 
think that anyone on this list had any reasonable expectation of 
thinking that posts to this list would be scrubbed before midday on 
May 30, 2003. 

Accordingly, I don't think *we* the FAQ list had a policy before 
August. I think *you* had a policy and *you* enforced/engaged in it. 

Unless there's a post to the list that would've been in the archives 
had it not been deleted and which I am thus missing on my search 
through the archives? It's certainly possible.

Heidi