RE: [Ext] [irsg] Minutes being messed with?

["STARK, BARBARA H" <[e-mail]>]

> > [ As the person who started this thread... ]
> >
> > There is a good chance that the (temporary) damage happened after the
> > meeting. Thus, knowing this in advance, I might export the results at
> > the end of the meeting.
> >
> > Even if I don't, as long as the history function works, I can alway
> > reverse the damage.
> [acm]
> There was an unfortunate Etherpad crash during one set of sessions some
> years back - that experience caused me to occasionally scrape the screen to a
> text file while taking minutes, and periodically asking my minute-takers to
> scrape as well.
> 
> (Status of the built-in history recall unknown after recovery in connection
> with this one failure instance.)
> 
> >
> > Given that, I don't see any good reason for the proposed premature
> > optimizations.
> [acm]
> If the over-writes were accidental, registered participants may have
> performed them, so I tend to agree with Paul and Barbara.

My personal "best" practices are to click the star on Etherpad at the very end of a session so it marks a specific point in the history, and to immediately copy the contents and email them to the chairs. If I think they need refining or there's a 2nd session still coming (so I don't want to email them to the chairs right away), I'll save a copy to a local text file. Just in case.
Barbara