[governance] Rules decide Membership not existing Members

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Fearghas and all,

  Drive by abuse as you put it is rare but does happen and
can be dealt with via technical means.  The biggest problem
is determining what is and what is not abuse in terns of 
participation on this forum?  Such definitions should be
strictly defined in terms of technical abuses as to security
and privacy in the managment of this list forum and the making
of false accusations and name calling.  So far only a few 
forum participants fall into these catagories that I have seen,
and we all know whom they are.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Fearghas McKay <fm-lists at st-kilda.org>
>Sent: Aug 25, 2009 6:44 AM
>To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
>Cc: Fearghas McKay <fm-lists at st-kilda.org>
>Subject: Re: [governance] Rules decide Membership not existing Members
>
>
>On 25 Aug 2009, at 10:22, Roland Perry wrote:
>
>> That's what Capture is about, and any sensible entity will have anti- 
>> capture rules.
>
>My concern about the capture rules which are fine in principle is the  
>the fact that you may not be able to vote on charter changes for a  
>random period of time ranging from just over 2 months to 14 months.
>
>If it was fixed in the middle, say 6-8 months on the list, that would  
>be understandable but I don't see why such a wide ranging period of  
>time is acceptable.
>
>Perhaps for future charter changes an addition should  be made to this  
>change setting a fixed time period as happens with voting for  
>coordinators, I would suggest 6 months bit since I am voteless I will  
>leave it to others to propose a timescale to protect the charter from  
>"drive by" abuse.
>
>Regards
>
>	Fearghas
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