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proposed on 11. March 2010 reminder sent on 19. March 2010

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A proposal made in accordance with the then-current rules governing proposal structure shall automatically take effect if and only if:

• No list member continues to object to the proposal after two weeks time.
• The proposal was sent prefixed with REMINDER: after the 8th day, specifying the final day for objections.
• At least two weeks have passed (15 days if the day on which the proposal was introduced is counted as the 1st)
• At least 72 hours have passed after the REMINDER.

For the purposes of this proposal someone is considered to be continuing to object simply by saying so. Absence from the lists during the consideration period does not confer any special privileges with regards to objections made after the proposal takes effect. Amended proposals (as explained in the proposal on the basic structure of proposals) work the same way as original proposals- the clock restarts from the day of the amendment is made.

A proposal with no objections, but no reminder email is closed four weeks after the start of the proposal. It can be restarted with a clean state (it did not fail, there were no objections).

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I reworded Henry's original proposal (which I think did pass, at least in spirit  :-) to make the reminder email part more workable. I didn't see anyone needing two reminders, one reminder in the second week with some time afterwards should be fine.

The purpose of the last paragraph is to take care of a proposal where everyone including the person starting it forgets about it, otherwise proposals would be in some kind of limbo state.

I would suggest as a good practise that the reminder email also includes a reminder that the replies to the reminder email should remove the word reminder from the subject line to keep reminder emails sticking out. (Yeah, 5 times  :-)

Henry's original comment: This proposal does not address what happens if objections remain after two days. It does not address how a proposal that has taken affect is recorded or how, when and under what circumstances a proposal may be reversed or revisited. Specifically, while the proposal does not grant special objection privileges to absent list members, it does not prevent the absent member from using some other normal method to revisit or reverse the proposal.