Clarification on open board mailing list and archives

This was extracted (@ 2025-10-25 13:10) from a list of minutes which have been approved by the Board.

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24 Jul 2000 ¶

 Ben Hyde requested that the current status of the availability of
 board mailing list and archive to member subscription and viewing be
 made part of the corporate record.  There was some discussion of
 archiving the board-private list as well, but Roy pointed out that the
 board-private list exists solely because it is private and that any
 official board actions must take place on the board list or during
 a board meeting.

 The following resolution was approved by vote of the directors
 present, with six yea votes (Brian, Ken, Roy, Ben, Rasmus, Doug),
 two nay votes (Randy, Dirk), and no abstentions.

    RESOLVED, that subscription to the board mailing list be open to
    any member of the Apache Software Foundation; and be it further

    RESOLVED, that the board mailing list archives be accessible and
    readable by any member of the Apache Software Foundation.