From: Liam Bedford (lbedford at domain lbedford.org)
Date: Thu 21 Jun 2001 - 12:35:52 IST
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 12:29:05PM +0100, Noel Carroll came forth with:
>
> > Indeed. But does this imply that should you disable mail delivery for a
> > couple of days, that you are also suspending your membership and therefore
> > your right to notification in a reasonable timeframe?
> >
> I don't think each member has a right to notification in a reasonable
> timeframe (that would be an excessive burden to give the committee).
>
> No, but a reasonable time frame is what the question is here. 10 to 13 days
> doesn't constitute anything reasonable IMHO.
>
It's standard for most societies... Eircom might have to tell people
more in advance, but we don't have that many members..
> The idea being if you inform the majority of your membership, the rest
> of them should know about it.
>
> Should they though? What, are we supposed to all be empathic now or
> something?
>
I'm assuming a basic level of communication between members... if one
disappears for 3 weeks and doesn't talk to anyone, then no-one could
expect them to know about it. Unless of course the committee engaged
in spamming every person on the list to tell them about it.
> And it's not like the announcement goes
> away (the archives are there). If someone were very worried that an AGM
> had been announced, they should look at the archives for the period
> they didn't receive mail.
>
> People can disable mail delivery for longer than a few days! Again I say,
> if someone doesn't konw about the AGM, how can they search for it, or why
> would they? I refer you to my previous comment about the unwritten
> requirement to ILUG members to be empathic now!
>
every AGM is advertised in some way. If people don't see the advertisment,
there's very little the committee can do about it. If a college society
advertises an AGM by putting posters in college ( where they can reasonably
expect their members to be), they can't be held responsible for not
telling the person who hasn't been in college for three weeks for
whatever reason.
>
> (I'm going to have some more caffeine now, before I get in a worse mood <g>)
> You do that! Perhaps your perception of reality will improve as a result.
>
nah.. my perception of reality involves a large number of elves and dwarves
fighting over Glantri..
(and this is my last word on the subject)
L.
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