[GSBN] An apology, a question

[Mark Piepkorn]

	I want to apologize to anybody who feels that their trust has been 
betrayed. My understanding of the GSBN - which may not be the same 
held by others - has always been that it's a "hub of communication" 
rather than a private community. The intention of dissemination seems 
to be built into our practice of having regional representatives of 
larger groups, as well as having publicly available archives. 
Limiting membership, as I recall, was chosen out of the desire to 
have a higher signal-to-noise ratio than the larger, open forums. 
These understandings, which may actually turn out to be assumptions, 
came from the initial discussions that occurred prior to the creation 
of this list, and subsequent discussions on this list. But I may be 
mistaken. The "About" page doesn't really address these things (not 
that it should).
http://greenbuilder.com/mailman/listinfo/gsbn

	Without intending to spark some drawn-out debate, is it time to 
revisit our purpose and redefine the general expectations we have of 
the GSBN and each other so that we're all on the same page? Did we 
ever write down some kind of mission statement? That, I don't recall.

Mark