[governance] Rules decide Membership not existing Members

[Roland Perry]

In message <874418.82231.qm at web83904.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>, at 19:25:20 on 
Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Eric Dierker <cogitoergosum at sbcglobal.net> writes
>Oh my Roland!!!  I forgot, there are thousands out there willing to do this work and they want to come and take control.  And they could
>CApture us. What planet did this worry come from?  The evil hordes do not want to do this.  A great goundswell of interested parties would be
>no less valuable or qualified than you and the folks who orginally captured this list.
> 
>Those of us who want a Governance to protect the individual user as opposed to the standing self appointed experts and their regime have to
>fight tooth and nail not to be abused and dishonored here.  Are you saying that the people should not have a voice, only Avri's founders and
>fathers should decide the governance of the internet?
> 
>So when you speak of capture do your homework and realize that the intent of this list was not to make you and the original members the all
>time majority  ----  but rather to find a governance in keeping with the principals of the UN Articles -- So it is truly you who have already
>captured.

Firstly, you must be confusing me with someone else, because I've only 
been on this list for a little over a year.

Secondly, the issue of rounding up 'friends' to capture a vote for 
coordinator or charter isn't about those "hordes" having their 
individual voices. In this hypothetical scenario (although I have seen 
something similar happen elsewhere, so it's not an impossible scenario), 
they would be my puppets, and disappear as soon as the vote was over.

(And as for ^groundswell" people having a voice - of course they must 
join the list and express their views, that's what it's for. The only 
issue at stake at the moment is what rules there should be to ensure a 
few individuals don't overwhelm the list with distracting postings.)

Regards,
-- 
Roland Perry
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