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From: Keith Moore <moore@CS.UTK.EDU>
To: drums@CS.UTK.EDU
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Subject: From the Chair: how to proceed
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 25 Aug 1995 10:46:20 +0200."
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 15:09:33 -0400
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Okay, I don't want to spend too much time discussing procedure,
and I like Harald's idea for a list of issues.  So I hereby
officially request a volunteer to keep track of issues and their 
state, and maintain a web page on them.   Send me mail if you're
interested in doing this.

I won't insist on a strict discipline such as I proposed earlier, 
but I may poll the group now and then to see whether there is
concensus on whether a particular problem really needs to be solved,
so that we don't spend too much time dealing with trivialities.

I also think it will help if people try to define the actual
symptom that's causing trouble (i.e. what undesirable behavior
is being observed) before stating a problem or issue or proposing
a solution.

It has been suggested that we tackle the most broken things
first, before trying to smooth out the finer points.  So I will 
be combing the archives and the list of issues we made in Stockholm, 
to see which of the problems mentioned seem to be causing the most 
harm, and will suggest those as topics for discussion.

In contrast to my usual working group mode, and in adapting to the
strange new role of Chair, I will be spending more time trying to 
gauge the group's opinion and less time trying to make suggestions 
and argue for them.  I will also clearly mark messages as being
"From the Chair" if they're meant to be official.

Keith