The Advisory Committee and Jerry agree
that:
1. We re-affirm
our support for open archives for
the list.
2. We believe that the existing archives
policy has worked
well in that it has both made available our
archives to the public
and has worked to ensure that what
listmembers write
is not quoted outside of the list.
3. If anyone on the list discovers
violations of our archives
policy then it should be reported to Jerry and/or
Allin who
will then decide, possibly in consultation with the
rest of the
Advisory Committee, what remedial action to
take.
4. We re-affirm our commitment to open, free,
and uncensored
discussions.
5. We re-affirm the list policy against flames and ask that all
members communicate with each other on-list in a respectful and
comradely way.
6. We do not support the call for a
duplicate, parallel list with
closed archives. We don't think it is needed
at this time and it
would require a lot of time and effort to set-up
and administer.
7. We thank all of those on the list who have
communicated your
thoughts on this question to the AC and
Jerry. We took all of
your concerns very seriously in our
discussions.
Comradely,