[H-GEN] [BOUNCE] A thought on membership and meeting quorum

[Jason Henry Parker]

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This message has been forwarded from a non-member-submission bounce.
More details from me are at the bottom.  I forwarded Chris's message
because (a) I felt in the mood; (b) I thought Chris's message was
interesting and timely; (c) I wanted to talk to the membership about
mailing lists; and (d) because Chris uses Gnus, the mail client of the
rich and famous.

More below.

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To: general at lists.humbug.org.au
Subject: A thought on membership and meeting quorum
From: Christopher Biggs <chris at stallion.stallion.oz.au>
Date: 30 Nov 2000 10:30:48 +1000
Message-ID: <sa1yvuwbbb.fsf at gweepery.stallion.oz.au>

I am not a current HUMBUG member.  I was founding VP of the group, but
have not renewed my membership for the simple reason that I have not
been able to make it to any meetings to do so.

What about a "non-voting" membership option, for members who are never
able to attend (or send proxies to) general meetings?

Alternatively, require a quorum of members who have registered to
vote.  (and btw, are members who are ineligible to vote due to having
only joined recently subtracted from the membership numbers when
calculating quorum?).

Just my $00.022

-- 
Christopher Biggs -- chris at stallion.oz.au -- Stallion Technologies Australia.
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