🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Dec16.075630@mccall.com>, tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot) writes:
> Maybe. But what they were doing is informing the membership of a decision that
> they felt the membership would disagree with. Whatever their motives, it is true
> that a) the membership wouldn't have heard about this till much later if those
> people hadn't spoken outside of official channels, and b) at least some of the
> membership thinks it was an utterly stupid decision and would very much like it
> reversed.
> 
> Note that the reorg flap happened the same way. Without postings here from
> leadership people explaining what the change really meant, many people would
> probably have gone along simply because the board recommended it. And given that
> dissenting opinions were given much less space in the official ballot than the
> proponents, it was the only way most of us would have heard about the whole
> thing.

Ouch!  That one hit home...

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