DATA: How many threads can you count in this Reply/All exercise.

The Still Didn’t Get the Memo Committee on Email Immoderation has been seasoning / sneezing at matters of email lists. The Still Didn’t Get the Memo … Committee has been considering whether to post blithely away because data is data or for Gods’ sake to wait until Mercury is no longer in retrograde so there is only the RantWoman Message Manglement Service in the picture generating static in message flows. [The Latter is what will occur]

 

First RantWoman offers the guidelines for her Meeting’s email list.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2R5lkN5vr6_cUV6dEdSNTAzRVk/view

 

RantWoman notes that the URL appears in different form in the usual message footer. RantWoman notes tartly that some people either seem to have trouble finding the guidelines or perhaps have not read them.

 

RantWoman calls readers’ attention to a couple parts:

 

·        Announcements only

 

·        “Of interest to the UFM Community,” as defined apparently by the email czar

 

·        NO Reply/ all  If you are requesting an action, please specify a response option.

 

·        Forward only with the original author’s permission.

 

RantWoman herewith posts the body of 3 successive emails, the latter two generated via Reply/all. No RantWoman has not asked the original authors’ permission to forward, extract for blog, dispatch via carrier pigeon, tweet out a syllable at a time… RantWoman received them via a different pathway and has NO idea whether the pathway involved the original authors’ permission to forward. It’s EMAIL for Gods’ sake. Once it leaves one’s own keyboard, it’s OUT OF YOUR HANDS. If you are so worried about violations of privacy, you might want to reconsider using email at all.

 

 

Extract One: Non Discrimination Policy

From newly formed Sierra Cascades Yearly Meeting of Friends:

 

Nondiscrimination Policy

Does your church have a nondiscrimination policy? If not, you might consider talking to a lawyer about creating one. This is one of the easiest ways to formally communicate your community’s commitment to safety. It should be published on your website and in your bulletin where it can be easily found. Most such policies explicitly list protected classes (gender, ethnicity, race, skin color). If you have one, check to see if it also includes people with disabilities, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, HIV status, immigration status. Nondiscrimination policies are one of the ways potential visitors check to see if you care about them. Sample policies linked below:

• Union Church
• NU'UANU Congregational Church
• UUA Sample Policies

 

[any instructions about where to direct followup and folowup requested?]

 

 

Extract 2

It is my belief that UFM has nondiscrimination and discrimination policies already and that they used to be collected in one place, under the care of Personnel Comm.  They have never been rescinded since they were approved or accepted by MM (for a while they happened sort of piecemeal), so they stand, whether the current Personnel Comm. has received them from its predecessors or not.  The only one in which there were doubts --because it was provisional and not clearly discerned so long ago-- was the question [shortly before Meeting for Business]

Let's not get ourselves confused about the ONE question before the Meeting at this time.  If PC wants something else to do, they can find someone to review the minutes from 1975 to 1989 and find when/how they were considered and approved.  Isn't it too bad [author of email] was never allowed to finish indexing the MM minutes?

 

[any instructions about where to direct followup and folowup requested?]

 

Extract 3
I don't see it having any relevance on our presentation of the …proposal to September's Meeting for Business.

This is a longer term issue for Personnel to consider.  And in doing so, we should see whether the already-good protections that Washington and Seattle have in place, regarding hiring.  They may have all of the other protected classes that we might be worried about covered.

 

 

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RantWoman-supplied Link that will get you to RCW 49.60

http://rantwoman.blogspot.com/2015/11/fun-facts-and-rcw-4960.html. RantWoman notes the addition in 2015 of gender identity and gender expression.