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Article #54Re: Was it right?
From: bt351
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 00:00
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Arthur D. Mira (admiral@ilos.net) wrote: : x-no-archive: yes (snip) : The part is that irks is that when a 'public' organization's members : begin to act as judge, jury, and executioner using the *excuse* : that someone *may* commit a civil or criminal offence. It's a : mentality of expediency that has no place when dealing with : legal matters for which they have a fiduciary responsibility. : They should have let sleeping dogs lie. The Toronto freenet : did it also, and one of these days that sleeping dog is going to : wake up and bite a freenet executive right in the butt. excuse me. ab330 was reinstated shortly after the '96 agm. and later (4 months?) deleted at the account holder's request. the deletion request was hand delivered by the account holder to the registrar with the bod and sundry members in witness. if you have a consideration, it is in the breadth of what consitutes a "security threat" to such an organisation. considering the tfn is VERY reliant on a very FEW organisations for resources (and the membership appears yet reluctant to shoulder more of the REAL operational cost - despite ongoing service enhancements and educational programs aimed at this), addressing the concerns of donor organisations would appear prudent. it certainly beats having one's plug pulled in the middle of the night (hmmm, maybe that is context sensitive). --
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 113d91,391f3d4344d926f7 X-Google-Attributes: gid113d91,public X-Google-Thread: 103731,391f3d4344d926f7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103731,public X-Google-Thread: 1083bf,391f3d4344d926f7 X-Google-Attributes: gid1083bf,public X-Google-Thread: 106cdd,391f3d4344d926f7 X-Google-Attributes: gid106cdd,public From: bt351@torfree.net (bt351) Subject: Re: Was it right? Date: 1998/01/13 Message-ID: <EMp4Do.13E.0.queen@torfree.net> X-Deja-AN: 315387623 References: <EMHL97.KA.0.bloor@torfree.net> <34B577C3.68B1@capcollege.bc.ca> <695lrg$rk2@cynic.portal.ca> <EMK6Dv.L90.0.queen@torfree.net> <34B83471.31B4@bc.rogers.wave.ca> <EMMsoo.1B6.0.queen@torfree.net> <34B96CAA.39EF@direct.ca> <34b9ce8e.92672880@news.ilos.net> Followup-To: torfree.general,van.general,bc.general,bc.politics Organization: Toronto Free-Net Newsgroups: torfree.general,van.general,bc.general,bc.politics