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[Cathryn MacArthur]

I know that face to face meetings have archives. When I want to monitor my
progress, I look back at my sent folder. In the past, I’ve sent meetings to
my family who are averse to Al-anon. I want to help them; ultimately, they
need to get themselves plugged in. When they get themselves plugged it,
they will be doing step 1 for themselves.

I dont have strong feelings on whether we keep them or not. I do have
strong feelings regarding money; I think we should always be as frugal as
humanly possible.

Cathryn

On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 9:37 AM J Roberts via Businessmtg <
businessmtg at asp-afg.org> wrote:

> Good morning folks,
>
>     I have to say that I have been all around the map with this topic.
>
>     My first thought was that we don't need the archives for the same
> reasons that many including Jerry, Linda, Mary and many others have stated,
> the principle of anonymity being my primary concern.
>
>    As part of the Steering Committee, I did see that the archives can be
> useful when trying to work through an event or concern of another member
> that involves previous shares.  While that doesn't happen often, I do see
> the convenience of having the shares archived.
>
>    Most importantly, I stand by my concern for  anonymity as well as safety
> and privacy.   While we say that it has never happened  in all these years,
> to say someone's ASP emails have never been hacked or invaded, is hearsay
> and an assumption and although we may not be aware of any breach or
> violation of one's shares.  Things do happen.   There are no safeguards in
> place to say that a person "X" couldn't join as person "Z" and be just the
> last person that you would  want to read your shares or "OT's".
>
>    We come to these meetings and feel safe here.   When I first came, I
> came with a fictitious name, a separate email and now I no longer live in
> fear of someone reading my personal shares, I am no longer fearful of the
> backlash or stalking.  My anonymity is not as important to me as it once
> was, but that doesn't mean that there is at least ONE person here that has
> the same fear/fears that I once had.  I am well aware that emails can stay
> on your computer or on mine if I never delete them, however, I have not
> heard a reason that convinces me for the good of the membership  for ASP to
> hold on to them indefinitely.
>
>   I think that the archives should be deleted permanently.
>
>   Lynne does bring up some interesting information that could sway me to
> lean towards the List Administrator having sole access if a vote were to
> come to that.
>
>   Hugs,
>
>   Jennifer
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