Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:36:24 12/20/98
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On December 20, 1998 at 22:30:04, Don Dailey wrote: >On December 20, 1998 at 21:42:49, Will Singleton wrote: > >>On December 20, 1998 at 17:57:53, Dave Gomboc wrote: >> >>>On December 20, 1998 at 16:54:59, Don Dailey wrote: >>> >>>>On December 19, 1998 at 19:21:12, Nicky Ventura wrote: >>>> >>>>>On December 19, 1998 at 19:16:13, Bruce Moreland wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>I think is a completely insane mess. There was some giant hoo-ha between Chris >>>>>>and members of the founder's group, approximately a year ago, and as a result, >>>>>>Chris' account password was changed so he couldn't access his account. >>>>>> >>>>>>This has been a subject of much controversy since then. I think it is possible >>>>>>that some members of the founder's group didn't realize that this had in fact >>>>>>happened, and thought that instead Chris had had his account record removed, >>>>>>which would have left him free to create a new account at any time. >>>>>> >>>>>>bruce >>>>> >>>>>So are you stating that there was confusion and that Chris Whittington is >>>>>actually a member of CCC and should be allowed to run. I think allowing all >>>>>members of the group to vote for the leaders is important. It should not be >>>>>decided by just three. Let him run and the group will decide if he is what they >>>>>want. >>>>> >>>>>Nicholas >>>> >>>> >>>>Sean, >>>> >>>>When you say "group", do you mean the 91 Sean Evans account aliases >>>>(that we have counted so far) or do you mean the real group? >>>> >>>>- Don >>> >>>That's quite a few, to say the least. Certainly, it's enough to skew an >>>election result. I was surprised to read a different post in which you state he >>>was banned. I am no longer. >>> >>>Dave Gomboc >> >>I would hope Don was exaggerating with 91 :) > >There was no exaggeration, there was 91 accounts, the assumption is that >it was Sean, every one came from the same provider, was very recently >added, and are the only ones on the whole group from that very same >provider. > > > >>Apparently, there is a problem with these free email accounts. To avoid undue >>election influence, the idea of restricting moderator voting to those who have >>been members for a certain period of time seems to have resonated with the >>membership. The times stated have differed, so I propose a compromise of 30 >>days. >> >>I hope the new moderators will prevail upon ICD to exclude the remailers. >>That's a minimum step to promote orderly discussion. It will unfortunately >>exclude a few good people, but there's always a tradeoff. >> >>Will I would suggest that if this happens again, we simply reject any applications from such a site. IE if an ISP lets a user fake up multiple email addresses, then we simply don't allow members from that ISP. May miss a few good members registering that way, but we eliminate a bunch of bad ones... and can perhaps get the ones that can't register to pressure the ISP to "close the hole"...
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