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“Proceedings Of City Council” City of Boston are a different document than the “Minutes”.

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“Proceedings Of City Council” City of Boston are a different document than the “Minutes”. Ask for “Proceedings Of City Council”… from your favorite City Councilor, City Clerk, Assistant City Clerk

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  1. What prompted you to post this?  Now that you have I’d be interested for you to explain what that difference is.

    • There’s a lengthy article on the subject here

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      p>Don is a classic net kook. It’s worth repeating this excerpt from his wikipedia entry:

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      Mr. Saklad’s writing style and posting style are unique. He often writes in a “telegraphic” manner characterized by short sentence fragments set off by periods. He rarely responds directly to questions or comments left by other individuals in response to his posts. Although he will post frequently on a forum and will elicit remarks from other posters regarding the content and peculiarities of his posts, he does not engage in conversation with other posters and does not write on topics other than the Boston Public Library and Boston City Hall/City Council. His style is also very impersonal, in that he will compose a post stating that Boston City Hall is not willing to provide a particular extraneous amount of information requested (such as the entire stenographic output of several council meetings), but will not specify that he in particular requested this information.

      Mr. Saklad is also known to publish seemingly random lists of information without any additional context. During the spring of 2005, he posted lists of Boston City Council members and their contact information on a number of internet forums. Particularly when he posts lists, he will become obsessive about his posting, for instance, starting separate threads or blog entries each time he comes across the phone number for an additional city council member, rather than adding to his previous threads. A Google search on a line from nearly any posting Mr. Saklad has made will reveal that he has posted the same information on dozens of other sites.

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      p>He is almost certain not to reply.

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