[Businessmtg] List Administrator tables discussion of list administrator

[Adrian Coburn]

Hi,

I thought Anne O. was leading this discussion. Are you making a motion to
table the issue? Concept 3 - decision making makes effective leadership
possible - is tempered by concept 4 - participation is the key to harmony.

In Service,
Adrian

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 1:22 PM Steve Rankin <steve at serenitysys.com> wrote:

> Hi ASPers,
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> The early shares on the "LA and Founder Roles" topic were consistently for
> making some changes, primarily some kind of committee to support the List
> Administrator by dealing with the thousands of emails received every month.
> Unfortunately, it seems that few noticed the comments in my report that
> described in a general way how few of those emails actually needed to be
> read.  Hence, my note Tuesday night that outlined the types of emails the
> LA
> receives and why less than 2% of them need to be read and attended to.
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> Another significant issue related to other members accessing the List
> Administrator emails and "helping" is that in order to "help" those people
> would need to have the same access to the server that the List
> Administrator
> has.  IMHO, that poses a huge security problem for ASP.  I know that
> Al-Anon
> likes to call its volunteers "trusted servants" but the reality is that not
> all members of Al-Anon can or should be trusted.  I personally know of two
> face-to-face Al-Anon "trusted servants" that stole tens of thousands of
> dollars from Al-Anon. I also know of at least 3 instances where a trusted
> servant of ASP violated that trust and accessed the server and either made
> changes on the server or used the information that they gleaned from the
> server for their personal use.  I could go on about this issue, but I'll
> save it for the next time.
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> Our objective in Al-Anon is to reach an "informed" group conscience.  A
> majority opinion without being informed is just an opinion and doesn't meet
> the higher standards of Al-Anon.
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> Since we have run out of time allotted for this discussion, I'm tabling
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> Moving on to the next topic for the Business Meeting:
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> "Address the participation requirements for topic chairs - Jerry"
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> Jerry, the floor is yours.
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> Love and SERENITY,
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> Steve
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