-=> On 04-20-05  00:03,  Peter Knapper <=-
 -=> spoke to Igor Romanovsky about New Z6C <=-

 PK> The last effort at changing Policy demonstrated to me 2 main things -
 PK> 1. That the Sysops of Fidonet still can't get together in 
 PK> agreement on much, and this has never changed since Fidonet 
 PK> was born.
 PK> 2. That if enough effort is put into a referenda, it is 
 PK> possible to get the attention of enough people to effect a 
 PK> change.

 PK> IMHO the key to 2. is solving 1., in that a VERY simple change to P4
 PK> (EG: the  Nodelist entry for Fidonews) would probably have worked and 
 PK> been passed IF it had been the ONLY proposed change. This 

   You seem to keep forgetting that the first proposal was exactly that.
   It died with no response from anyone.

 PK> woud have deomnstrated that chanig policy was possible, and
 PK> people would then have had a clear direction to take for 
 PK> proposing even more changes. But it was killed dead in its 
 PK> tracks by the second proposed change, the modification to 
 PK> voting requirements. THAT was what killed the change... 

   Perhaps, but that second proposed change did get a lot of people
   talking and collaborating.   Why it got killed was due to many
   factors.

 PK> Remove items that are contentious from the menu and this
 PK> bird could probably fly...

  The bird will fly iff the RCs collectively want it to fly.

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