General Policy Stuff

[Amanda]

Cindy:
> A proposal, then. 
> 
> How about if this group decides to review its archives before new
> members arrive and to delete anything that might embarrass a new
> member, as we have done in the past?  If MEG comes up with some
> compelling reason to handle things differently, they can tell us and
> we can reconsider our decision, of course.  This proposal will avoid
> delay in bringing in new members, it will avoid spending any more 
time
> and effort on the issue, and it will side-step all of those sticky
> autonomy issues as well!  Ever So Awesome!
> 
> How about if no one objects to this proposal in the next few days,
> we'll consider that to be our group consensus decision?  Or, if we
> prefer to go with majority rule on this one, I guess we could draft
> and run a poll.

Why can't we just wait and see what the MEG list determines, before 
visiting this issue ourselves? I mean, it's not exactly something 
burning right at the minute, no new members are proposed that 
*require* anything to be scrubbed, what's wrong with back-burnering 
it for a bit so MEG can percolate? Why do concurrent deliberations, 
and then possibly have to revisit?

Not understanding the urgency,

~Amanda