RE: From Anner Whitehead

["George and Janet Smith" <4f80107e1@rewrite.aisboard.org>]

Now how sad is this.  A VALUED ELDER who has been there done that AND
we don't want their input -- late or not???  REALLY!  And you wonder
why members don't participate in discussions - if you won't listen to
an elder - why should we new comers try!

This is appalling-disrespectful of someone who has worked hard for
this society.

Janet Smith


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From: 100h@rewrite.aisboard.org
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Subject: [AISdiscuss] From Anner Whitehead
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 18:25:00 -0500 (CDT)

>
>
>Greetings.
>
>Purely to assuage my curiosity, would someone please be so kind as to
>clarify the normative or official duration of the Discussion Period
>of a motion which has been made here and seconded? I am not speaking
>of situations where someone other than the Secretary calls the vote. 
>
>I thought this period of reflection and discussion was by AISDiscuss
>convention, if not by Robert's, held to be two weeks, but apparently
>l was incorrect.
>
>On September 19 I offered some thoughts on a motion which entered the
>discussion phase on September 9. I can find no post in the Archives
>in which the Secretary announces that the discussion phase had closed
>and vote was commencing. I do see some indication of people voting,
>and one member telling them that the vote had not yet been called by
>the Secretary. I sense I must have missed something.
>
>I am fully aware that participation by non-Board members is not now
>much encouraged, although President Morris has always been uncommonly
>gracious about my own single-handed if quixotic attempts to preserve
>the traditional prerogative of the wider AIS membership to
>participate in Board discussions. But you shoot yourself and the
>Society squarely in the foot when you receive the membership's
>sincere and informed contributions-- even the a late one- with
>asperity.
>
>I won't apologize for sending in my last post, but that is the last
>time I am going to contribute. I am mothballing my Don Qwixie drag,
>and I will no longer be reading these Archives. There are subjects
>about which I am without doubt the most knowledgeable member of this
>Society, but if you want my insights,you will need to ask. 
>
>Anner M. Whitehead
>
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