FW: Requesting membership (re-formatted)

[Cindy C.]

Crap!

I'm still getting the hang of posting via e-mail instead of web view,
and the formatting on my last message was awful.  Plus, I forgot to
attribute the quote to which I was responding.  Here's a cleaned-up
re-post; I'll delete the other one from the archives.

Cindy

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Howdy!

Heidi:
  
> I want to make it clear that my objection was just that. An
>objection.  It was not intended to be an attempt to blackball said
>scrubbing, and I don't think, Cindy, that you should decide for the
>group that scrubbing should not happen. Why shouldn't this be
>something discussed and deliberated?

I haven't decided that scrubbing shouldn't happen.  I haven't decided
that scrubbing should happen.  We're discussing it right now.  

We did, however, have an invitation go out yesterday without having
the archives reviewed or scrubbed (so far as I know, anyway).  We have
no meeting of the minds on the issue (yet).  So all I can do right now
is deal with my own messages that I wrote believing that they would be
deleted before invitations were sent out.  

  
What you saw there was an attempt by me to be deferential.  See, the
current vote is Sheryll, Heidi and Amanda with reservations about
scrubbing and only Cindy in favor of scrubbing.  Everyone else has
been silent so far.  I apologize if I was unclear and appeared to be
speaking out of turn.  I didn't mean to.
  

Heidi:

>And if you plan to continue deleting posts where you discuss
>potential newbie-faqers, then you certainly should feel free to post
>to the list and then delete your post before the invitation is made,
>instead of sending offlists. Why not just post to the list and
>include a request that nobody quote you on the list when discussing
>the Potential? I know I'd respect such a request.

  
Sure.  We could handle it that way.  I just was worried that my
saying, "Everybody has to delete a post in which they quote me" would
lead to comments suggesting I was being controlling or something.  I
didn't feel I could demand that others delete their posts if they
quote me, given the sentiments of those who have spoken so far.  I'm
quite willing to go with whatever the group decides and, as I said,
govern myself accordingly.
 
Cindy