>>***If no one objects to the proposal by November 15, I am going to
>> conclude that we have consensus to open the archives as Duncan
>> proposed***.
>>The only remaining questions would then be how best to do it: e.g. how
>>access to the archives should be changed technically; how and to whom --
>>i.e. which lists -- this decision should be communicated to). I expect
>>that these residual questions can be resolved relatively quickly.
>>If you have objections to the proposal, ***PLEASE SPEAK NOW***.
>>In Solidarity, Jerry
>>>From Duncan's [OPE-L:230]
>><snip>
>>> I'd like to see the archives opened with some simple, enforceable, and
>>> easily understandable policy that would let people see what's being said
>>> and protect against the possible misuse of the material for quotation. I
>>> guess my favorite idea is a "Bourbaki" kind of policy in which people can
>>> quote the archive as much as they want to, but only cite it as OPE-L
>>> generically, so that no member of the list has to defend every word that he
>>> or she posts. This is simple, and I don't see any particular flaw in it,
>>> though it would also prevent individual members of the list from claiming
>>> polemical credit for particular exchanges, as well. But it would get the
>>> ideas out in the public domain.
>><snip>