CS> Has he done something to upset you?

 BF>    Even if I know it's bad manners, let me answer that question
 BF> with a question: what do you expect from an IC?

 BF>    For several years Ward had to take all kinds of shit from
 BF> (mostly) a handful of grunt Z1 sysops. Eventually this same handful
 BF> of grunt Z1 sysops staged a coup where they claimed to have
 BF> replaced Ward as IC with Malcolm. And the claimed reason was
 BF> something Ward had done.

i don't know what a "grunt" is where you come from but over here,
a "grunt" is one of the "manual labor" type in the
workforce... the folks that you are speaking of were all of "upper
management" status...

 BF>    So now the coup makers claim we've got a new IC. And this IC has
 BF> done absolutely nothing for more than a year. Sure enough, if you
 BF> want to remain long enough in politics, you should keep as low a
 BF> profile as possible, but surely you can agree, that this is not a
 BF> political arena, but a technical one? And in a technical
 BF> environment, at least *I* don't think that maintaining a low
 BF> profile has any benefits at all.

you have read P4 and earlier policy documents, right? what do you expect
from an IC? more than what the policy documents state??

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