🚀 go-pugleaf

Sorry it took so long for me to respond to both Jon and John, but
duties call and I wanted to give others a chance to jump into
the discussion anyway.

Jl> I think that you can expect more. To my knowledge, there has 
JL> been no significant raid, confiscation, or evident legal/civil 
JL> liberties breach affecting the Austin network/bbs community 
JL> since EFF-Austin was formed. I hope that this means we've been 
JL> doing our job. As I understand it, our police liaison committee 
JL> was formed with the specific intention of educating and 
JL> communicating with the various local police agencies so that, 
JL> if something like the Steve Jackson raid ever again loomed as a 
JL> possibility, there would be some understanding in advance of the 
JL> 1st and 4th amendment implications, etc. Preventive medicine.

SJG bust was one of the most ignorant raids and not the best of 
examples. Many of us are no doubt being monitored and the letter 
of the law is often transgressed on many if not all local BBSs.  
I am not a business.  I have a personal bbs set up to serve artists 
and others that very often do not give a hairy fig for rules & regs. 
My choices seem to be keep it up and risk castration or jackoff in
private.  So far I am staying the course and exposing myself 
publically.  <only semi sarcastic> 

JL> One other note: I'm not sure that EFF-Austin has done as good 
JL> job as it might of communicating about goals, plans, 
JL> accomplishments, etc. in this newsgroup. I expect that 
JL> you'll see more from directors here ongoing, and I hope that 
JL> more of you will participate in the dialog.

JSQ> What else do you think we should be doing?  I can think of lots
JSQ> of things, and we're getting to as many of them as we can, modulo
JSQ> existing volunteer burnout.  But you probably have ideas we haven't
JSQ> thought of.  What do you want?  What do you need?

Thank you both for responding to my thots.  I would still like to hear
from the rest of the BOD and BOA more often within this news group.  If
service in the machinery of the organization keeps y'all away from this
important voice to the local BBS communitity, then you have given me 
another reason to avoid volunteering beyond my means.

I have some/many friends and acquaintances within the directors of 
EFF Austin and I hope my comments about the organization as a whole 
aren't taken personally.   I can only afford to attend a select number 
of the f2f meetings and would like to see this newsgroup as more than 
a place for announcements and forwarded news.  It's my main contact point!

Do you really want to make this a grass roots democarcy?  Really in the
full sense of the term?  I would vote my heart out at the first election!

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As far as changes in the national org, Rita and Mike G. were the people 
that I had the most use or contact with, now they are gone. I will miss them!  

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