[governance] Rules decide Membership not existing Members

[Roland Perry]

In message <76484.77630.qm at web83912.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>, at 18:43:25 on 
Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Eric Dierker <cogitoergosum at sbcglobal.net> writes
>What an example this list is setting for governance everywhere.
> 
>"we will decide who is a member based on our discretion" "only those we deem members may vote"

So you won't mind if I round up a couple of hundred of my friends, and 
get them to become instant list members, and vote the way I ask them to?

That's what Capture is about, and any sensible entity will have 
anti-capture rules.
-- 
Roland Perry
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