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| Title: | DCU |
| Notice: | 1996 BoD Election results in 1004 |
| Moderator: | CPEEDY::BRADLEY |
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| Created: | Sat Feb 07 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1041 |
| Total number of notes: | 18759 |
820.0. "on reticence" by STAR::PRAETORIUS (I have faith in questioning) Wed Apr 27 1994 01:09
Just like (almost) everyone else, I find this "no comment" stuff
frustrating (well, infuriating might be a better word). But that's how
it's been done in the past, that's how it'll be done this time, might
as well sit back and enjoy it. . .
So I figgered, let's turn it into a puzzle. You know, like
you meet two strangers at an unlabeled fork in the road
one always lies, one always tells the truth, but you
don't know which is which
you want to know the way to LaLaland & both strangers
know which fork you should take
what 1 question can you ask to find out which way to go?
(I don't mean to imply that this is a direct parallel to the current
situation, which would be a rather rude assumption. This is just an
example of the general type of problem - one where some kinds of
information can be had & others can't.)
Likewise, with the DCU election, we might try to find out:
what kinds of things are confidential?
why are they confidential?
what questions CAN which people answer?
what questions are which people LIKELY to answer?
A partial answer to the first two can be found in 819.0, where it's
implied that some people who are not DCU outsiders are bound to
confidentiality in some matters concerning the DCU. I imagine that
any lawyers out there in the audience could take us a few steps
further, just on the basis of experience.
N.B.: Some'll see evil intent lurking in the election thing & others'll
see honest difference of opinion & still others who-knows-what.
There's plenty of room for that in the other notes. Let's just keep
this one light.
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| 820.1 | afterthoughts | STAR::PRAETORIUS | I have faith in questioning | Wed Apr 27 1994 01:16 | 7 |
| Another interesting possibility in 819.0 is that people who are DCU
outsiders may sometimes release information that cannot be released by
some people who are not DCU outsiders.
How much information is there to be had through this channel? What
things are in this category of can-be-released-if-seen-by-DCU-outsiders-
but-not-by-persons-bound-by-confidentiality?
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