SUO: Re: Standard Upper Ontology Procedures
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SUOP. Note 24
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In: SUOP Outline. http://suo.ieee.org/email/thrd5.html#11584
Hx: SUOP 22. http://suo.ieee.org/email/msg11868.html
Hx: SUOP 23. http://suo.ieee.org/email/msg11873.html
JA = Jon Awbrey
JS = Jim Schoening
JS: Are you making a motion? Do you truly want to put this
group through an email ballot to decide if we should look
into this subject? If you want to look into it, seek some
other people and look into it. If it looks viable, package
up a proposal, build some consensus, then propose the change
in the form of a motion. You don't need a motion to just look
into something. Motions in an email group take a lot of time
and work and should be introduced with great care and only
when needed.
Jim,
What I would like is attention to and acknowledgement of my suggestion
for a possible course of collective action that is offered in the hopes
of ameliorating -- fast, temporary, or otherwise -- an outstanding and
a longstanding problem that affects our collective ability for working
steadfastly and working together toward our collectively espoused goals.
I have posted the information that I can gather. There may be issues
that I have not foreseen, that require the expertise of IEEE admin and
tech staff to consider. Maybe the "nihil obstat" way really is best:
Are there any objections to: (1) subscribing the Main SUO
reflector to the Gmane Newsgroup server on a trial basis,
(2) exporting the SUO Archive to make up a Gmane Archive
that would serve as a partial mirror, not a replacement
for our existing archive? NB. In order to complete
the quickest possible trial solution to the volume
problem, SUO admin would need to return the list
parameters to the days of yesteryear when any
person could post to the list, whether that
person be subscribed or not. We stopped
this practice during a season of massive
spam assaults and virus attacks, but
I believe that those problems have
now been remedied in other ways.
Of course, we may find out
otherwise. But let's see.
Jon Awbrey
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