Text 9047, 47 rader
Skriven 2005-03-29 22:04:18 av mark lewis (1:3634/12)
   Kommentar till text 9004 av David Drummond (3:640/305)
Ärende: Fidonews Echo Rules
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 ml>>>>>> P4 /was/ ratified by a majority "vote" AT THAT TIME...

 MvdV>>>>> But not by the entire network.

 ml>>>> what part of "majority vote" or even "majority 'vote'"
 ml>>>> do you not understand???

 DD>>> Majority of whom?

 ml>> the *Cs just as policy mandates...

 DD> The Z2 *Cs were excluded (so we're told).

told by whom?? the wording that i recall coming down the pike was that the *C
were to poll those below them, gather their answers, combine those answers into
a "vote" based on the majority and pass that "vote" up to their *C who would do
the same... if Z2 *Cs didn't do that, that's not our problem... go beat them
about the head and ears for failing to do their job... in fact, that goes for
any *C that was there during that time period...

 DD>>> I think Michiel is suggesting that the majority of interested
 DD>>> parties had no say.

 ml>> they did if their *C performed their job decently and
 ml>> inquired of his net members instead of making a decision
 ml>> on his own... oh, but wait... *C don't have to pay
 ml>> attention to their net members... they didn't back then,
 ml>> anyway... the way that *Cs are chosen and operate today
 ml>> is a very recent change in the fundamental political
 ml>> structure of fidonet and one that has only really come
 ml>> about in the last 10 years or so...

 ml>> we cannot fault those who came before us... today's rules
 ml>> are not the rules of yesterday... just because something
 ml>> that came to be yesterday would not come to be today by
 ml>> today's rules doesn't negate what is or has been done...
 ml>> slavery hasn't been negated... P4 is still the operative
 ml>> policy of this network... EP1 holds no water...

 DD> P4 is not worth the paper it's written on. Is has no authority
 DD> any longer in Fidonet, it is merely a guide document.

too bad that EP1 is even less than that ;)

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