Conferences on Grex are readable by anybody creating an account on Grex
(registered users).  This policy enables reading of conferences by people
without accounts (non-registered users).  This reading will probably take
place via web browsers, although this policy covers other means of access
too. As always, only registered users can post items and responses.  This
policy allows unregistered users to read the conferences (but not to post
without first creating a Grex account). 

1. Conference participants can decide whether they want unregistered users
to be able to read the conference, by discussing it in the conference. 
The decision for each conference is made by its fair witnesses. 

2. No items may be linked from those conferences that choose to not allow
unregistered reading.  Even if this rule is not enforced by the software,
fair witnesses should observe this rule.  If a fair witness deliberately
links items with the intention of thwarting this policy, staff will remove
the person's fair witness status and unlink the items.

3. At any time, conferences may switch their status to allow or disallow
unregistered readers.  This is done by discussion of the participants and
a decision by the fair witness, as described in part 1 of this policy. 

4. The staff conference is not readable by anybody but the staff, the
board, and cfadm (the conference administrator).  It is not readable by
unregistered users. 

5. Fair witnesses have 60 days from the day this proposal passes, to
determine the status of each conference.  If a fair witness is inactive,
or if a conference does not have a fair witness, or if the fair witness
fails to select a status, the conference will automatically be readable by
unregistered users. 

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VOTE RESULTS:

This vote was proposed in Co-op 9, item #27, response #578.
The membership voted between 2/11/97 and 1/21/97.
Results were posted 2/22/97.
Results: Yes 16    No 24
The proposal failed.