Text 4170, 55 rader
Skriven 2004-12-23 09:26:54 av Roy Witt (1:10/22)
   Kommentar till text 4048 av Thom LaCosta (1:261/1352.0)
Ärende: FNS creator
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Hello Thom.

22 Dec 04 09:45, you wrote to Robert Couture:

 TL>> In fact, some might consider it a fitting and worthwhile exercise to
 TL>> "fight fire with fire."
 RC>> A very interesting post, Thom.  I guess that would be two wrongs do
 RC>> not make a right.  But since certain folks in Zone 2 think that two
 RC>> wrongs do make a right, I suppose there is something to be said for
 RC>> your bluntness. ;)
 RC>> Let the race begin.

 TL> I think it would be very instructive for members of the network to be
 TL> informed of whatever progress is being made to conduct an election
 TL> for moderator of FN_SYSOP.

 TL> If Fidonews is looked upon as the "publication of record" for the
 TL> network, then that publication and this echo might be an ideal place
 TL> to inform the members of the progress.

Fair enough. So far there has been an election called by Dan Ceppa. Up to
this point, it's been a bunch of whining by Felten and company; that one
rule that has been stated for this election was that, only those who have
posted within the past six months are elegible to vote. IHisO, those who
don't post there but do read there, have been disinfranchised.

Historicaly, it's been a rule of the echo for some years that sysops
sitting on the sidelines, those who read but do not post, have no voting
privileges whatsoever when it came to election time. Only those who have
participated over a period of time may vote.

And, since the last election bypassed the rules of election completely,
that same sceneario is happening again, as the precedent has been set.

The arguement against that premise is that 'the sysops own the echo' and
everyone in the nodelist is elegible to vote there.

Unfortunately, if that were the case, a moderator getting 16 votes total,
wouldn't be the moderator according to the above premise. Thus, only echo
participating sysops are elegible to vote.

I was contemplating asking you to act as the Election Coordinator, you
having the means to receive all modes of netmail, email, internet online
and no interest in the outcome of the election, other than curiosity. If
you agreed to that and it was acceptable to Dan and everyone else, then
the question would have been asked.

Since that that's now a 'cat out of the bag' in a public echo, what do you
say?




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