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

No coup, An election was held, fair and square, by ALL 6 regions.
Ward lost, and was thus replaced by Malcolm who won.

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

And with that, you are accusing Malcolm of being a political hack.  As
well, there are NO coup makers.  It is in your opinion that nothing
has been done, and, by the same token, nothing has been done by the
OTHER so called IC (for life)

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