[H-GEN] Fwd: Planet Humbug - time to retire or fix

[matheist76 at westnet.com.au]

Stephen Thorn stated:

> Matthew, you have unfortunately misunderstood the democratic process
> being followed.

" Motion: that we remove all private email lists and make them public.
Motion: Failed, 11 against, 9 for""

Lets take a look at that. 
In the positive that means that we will remove the private lists and 
make them public.

In the negative it means that we will leave the private lists alone and 
not make them public.

So if I say I won't do something that doesn't prevent others from doing 
so. However if we as a group say we won't do something then that means
as a group we won't do that thing. Right. 

So as a group we have said we won't remove all private email lists. 

If Russell is a part of HUMBUG which I strongly believe to be the case 
then he must do not what we as a group have said we will do not.

I think I'm right.

Matthew Franklin.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Thorne" <stephen at thorne.id.au>
To: matheist76 at westnet.com.au
Cc: "general" <general at lists.humbug.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, 8 September, 2009 4:34:19 PM GMT +10:00 Brisbane
Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Fwd:  Planet Humbug - time to retire or fix

<snip>

Matthew, you have unfortunately misunderstood the democratic process
being followed.

The net effect of a defeated motion is zero. Only a positive outcome has
any real effect.

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Regards,
Stephen Thorne
Development Engineer
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