Re: UK Usenet Committee Elections 2009 - Confirmed Candidates
Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:08:39 +0100
In uk.net.news.management on 19 Oct 2009 22:48:52 +0100, Matthew
Vernon <matthew@debian.org> wrote:
> Pedt <"\"@ @\""@some.oddities-etc.co.uk> writes:
>
>> 6. Do you think the current uk.* procedures are broken? If yes, what
>> is the first thing you would want to change and why?
>
> Broken is quite a strong ...
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Re: UK Usenet Committee Elections 2009 - Confirmed Candidates
Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:27:02 +0100
In article <GPYd4UhAgH4KFwiU@molly.mockford>,
Molly Mockford <nospamnobody@mollymockford.me.uk> writes:
>At 10:54:58 on Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Geoff Berrow <blthecat@ckdog.co.uk>
>wrote in <7va0e59ifai39c0vs6tijo96ld944la26t@4ax.com>:
>
>>On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:26:19 +0100, Pedt <"\"@
>>@\""@some.oddities-etc.co.uk> ...
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Re: UK Usenet Committee Elections 2009 - Confirmed Candidates
Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:59 +0100 (BST)
In article <Yok*TdcUs@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk (David Damerell) wrote:
> To look in more detail into why the urcm creation took five months.
> It's clear that both UKV and Control experienced difficulties which
> could be handled better in future.
Not a good reason. If y ...
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Re: UK Usenet Committee Elections 2009 - Confirmed Candidates
Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:59 +0100 (BST)
In article <Sfc*XbcUs@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk (David Damerell) wrote:
> Out of interest, if you feel taking five months to create one
> newsgroup is
> efficient, how long would it have to take to be inefficient?
I recall a newsgroup talking less than 5 *hours* to be crea ...
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Re: UK Usenet Committee Elections 2009 - Confirmed Candidates
Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:40:02 +0100
At 17:01:08 on Thu, 22 Oct 2009, David Damerell
<damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in
<Sfc*XbcUs@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>:
>Out of interest, if you feel taking five months to create one newsgroup
>is efficient, how long would it have to take to be inefficient?
The point is not to create groups as ...
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Re: UK Usenet Committee Elections 2009 - Confirmed Candidates
22 Oct 2009 16:55:26 +0100 (BST)
Quoting Geoff Berrow <blthecat@ckdog.co.uk>:
><ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>>Alternatively the Committee could have refrained from bikeshedding
>>well beyond their remit and insisting on the mandatory optional
>>wording.
>The more you use this ridiculous schoolyard term the crazier it gets.
If it ...
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Re: UK Usenet Committee Elections 2009 - Confirmed Candidates
Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:19:28 +0100
At 10:54:58 on Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Geoff Berrow <blthecat@ckdog.co.uk>
wrote in <7va0e59ifai39c0vs6tijo96ld944la26t@4ax.com>:
>On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:26:19 +0100, Pedt <"\"@
>@\""@some.oddities-etc.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>>The Committee have been informed of where to find that signature in the
>>>event of such a cata ...
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Re: UK Usenet Committee Elections 2009 - Confirmed Candidates
Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:26:19 +0100
In message <Krv3uB.Myw@clerew.man.ac.uk>, at 11:27:47 on Wed, 21 Oct
2009, Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> wibbled
>In <hVAtC4f+5j3KFw$y@fishcake.eternal-september.org> Pedt <"\"@
>@\""@some.oddities-etc.co.uk> writes:
>
>>I think that's happened precisely once before - when the first Committee
>>was fo ...
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Re: UK Usenet Committee Elections 2009 - Confirmed Candidates
Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:19:13 +0100
Having obtained a round tuit, I will now attempt to answer.
>>>> 1. What is your understanding of the term 'good governance' and how
>>>> should this be applied to the management of the uk usenet hierarchy?
Good governance is keeping to the rules established, changing them only
in accordance with those rules ...
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Re: UK Usenet Committee Elections 2009 - Confirmed Candidates
Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:52:59 +0100
In message <memo.20091020231248.2664I@cix.co.uk>, Paul Cummins
<paulcummins@cix.co.uk> wrote:
>> Paul, the way things are looking, had you decided to stand this
>> year you'd probably have gotten elected. You just need to work on
>> your timing :)
>
>IF it gets really bad, the committee have the opportunity to ...
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