From lojban-out@lojban.org Thu Jul 25 13:54:28 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_7_4); 25 Jul 2002 20:54:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 58685 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2002 20:54:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m13.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 25 Jul 2002 20:54:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Jul 2002 20:54:28 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 17Xpcy-0004hQ-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 13:54:28 -0700 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17Xpcu-0004h7-00; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 13:54:25 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 25 Jul 2002 13:54:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from miranda.org ([209.58.150.153] ident=qmailr) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.05) id 17Xpcq-0004gy-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 13:54:20 -0700 Received: (qmail 27836 invoked by uid 534); 25 Jul 2002 20:54:19 -0000 Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:54:19 -0600 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: New Members, Board of Directors, other LogFest results Message-ID: <20020725145419.C1541@miranda.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010730221611.00b10c00@pop.cais.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20020723025544.032cba90@pop.east.cox.net> <20020723103956.E28971@miranda.org> <5.1.0.14.0.20020723195058.030913c0@pop.east.cox.net> <20020723221537.B26815@miranda.org> <5.1.0.14.0.20020724155616.032ea010@pop.east.cox.net> <5.1.0.14.0.20020725050104.00aac9d0@pop.east.cox.net> <20020725182904.GC17369@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <5.1.0.14.0.20020725161931.033c2a70@pop.east.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020725161931.033c2a70@pop.east.cox.net>; from lojbab@lojban.org on Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 04:33:28PM -0400 X-archive-position: 303 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jkominek@miranda.org Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list X-eGroups-From: Jay F Kominek From: Jay F Kominek Reply-To: jkominek@miranda.org X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 04:33:28PM -0400, Bob LeChevalier wrote: > > > >Given that the minutes were *just* posted, and you have not, as far > > > >as I know, sent out any reminders, I can't see why you're surprised. > > > > > > The point of the committee chairpersons is that they were supposed to > > > do the coordination and contacting so it wasn't dependent on me and > > > Nora. If a committee chairman needs to be reminded, no work has been > > > saved. > > > >I disagree. An e-mail once to all committee members a month takes <1 > >minute of your time. This might lead to many more than 1 minutes of > >work getting done. > > I see your point, but it is a different philosophy than was the basis for > the past committees. Certainly we can do that if committees are NOT > established with a "lojbab keep away" attitude. There is this implicit and unnessecary (blah, don't care to look that one up, I can never spell it, anyways), assumption that lojbab even needs to send these emails. It is trivial to send automated emails. Robin or I could (and I'm volunteering to do so), could trivially throw together something, which would monthly send out an email along the lines of: ===== Dear , Please note that there are days remaining until the start of next month, when your report on the status of committee is due to the LLG membership. If you are unable or unwilling to produce this report, please notify the membership, or promptly so that committee leadership may be reassigned as appropriate. - The Automated Committee membership reminder service ===== In fact, producing that text was the longest part of developing software to do this. Please give me a list of committees, their leaders, and their addresses, and I can have something to Robin within a day to generate these, or your money back. Or should you not have such a list at the moment, then you may, at your leisure, send me that list and cite this email, and my offer will still be valid. -- Jay Kominek Were they dressed like this?