[Nfbmt] IMPORTANT --the use of this discussion listserve

[Rik James]

Hi folks,

Rik James here.
What a wonderful weekend. Thanks for your vote of confidence in me to serve 
as First Vice President.
We have tons to do and a great group was there in Billings. The Yellowstone 
Chapter deserved our many thanks as the host for our state convention. And, 
thanks to all who worked so hard, and contributed so generously their time 
and actually money, too, in many cases. I love it.

But let me say this.
This discussion group is NOT where we should conduct any important and 
official conversations of the affiliate.

Dan Burke is the List Mom, or administrator.
And maybe the board can decide it more formally.
But this discussion group is, in my view not a place to conduct business.

I think we need a private and exclusive setting for that.
We can set one up. So let's do that. Okay?

It is easy to just hit Reply and think we are only talking to each other in 
the thread of a conversation.
But the list has members who are not in any way involved with much of this.

I feel the same about Facebook and other social media.
Let's have a discussion at some point about what is and is not appropriate 
for that at some point, too.

No, I am not criticizing anyone who is or has been posting on the NFB of MT 
lilstserve or the Facebook. But let's examine this.