[governance] The greatest threat in the world today to peace....

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

> Appropriate messages to an IGC list contribute to the objectives and
>> tasks of the IGC, particularly:

I see this as more of a guideline.

'Appropriate' is a fuzzy category, is very subjective and leaves lots of
room for Postel's Law* to be applied voluntarily.

'Appropriate' is also context dependent.

For example: If one of us breaks her legs and the list members find out,
people may offer sympathy and best wishes.  That has nothing to do with
tasks of the IGC, yet collegiality aspect of such best wish seem 
appropriate.

Likewise congratulations for getting appointed to some special honor,
like a high level committee or being elected as the Co-Cordinators of
the IGC.

'Contributes' is another fuzzy category.  All sorts of non-Ig issue
discussion might contribute.  For example someone could offer a
discussion of the sustainability work done in some other field that has
nothing to do with Ig, but someone might just want to draw a parallel.

'Particularly' as a header on a list is an indication that the
following list is more of an inter alia (including but not limited to)
type of list, but one where special status is attributed to the examples
listed.

On 10-Feb-14 02:06, David Cake wrote:

> Not quite Catch 22, but a similar form of rule reflexivity that
> deserves its own number perhaps.

If you view these as guidelines not rules, they are not a catch but
complementary. And the list members can indeed point put that perhaps
something is inappropriate for the list.  Sometime a person will accept
that graciously, or maybe a bit grumpily.  Sometime the person will not
accept guidance fro her listmate and will behave inappropriately; when
that happens we have the Co-Cos to gently shepherd us back to an
appropriate path.

Or at least that is how I interpret it.

avri

* Postel's Law: "Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you
accept from others"

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