Re: Request to mailing list foundation-announce rejected

[Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc linuxweasel com>]

On Fri, 2001-11-09 at 09:16, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 11:27:01AM -0500, foundation-announce-admin gnome org was heard to remark:
> > Your request to the foundation-announce mailing list
> > 
> >     Posting of your message titled "Nominate Leslie Proctor"
> > 
> > has been rejected by the list moderator.  The moderator gave the
> > following reason for rejecting your request:
> > 
> > "Your message has been deemed inappropriate by the moderator. The
> > timeline has expired. I already rejected another request. I let you
> > check with the board and the election comitee on this issue,
> > 
> > Daniel"
> 
> Uhhm, isn't the deadline this Saturday, November 10th?  The week hasn't
> ended yet, at least not in my timezone.  (Its not even noon).

Nope, according to the release announcement at
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2001-October/msg00050.html
it's November 8, 2001.

> At any rate, I think Leslie is a superb candidate; I think it would be 
> inappropriate to exclude her from consideration.   I'm somewhat
> disappointed with the nomination process in that people are nominating
> themselves, instead of kicking back and thinking "who would be best
> suited to run this thing?"  I'd rather see the board consist of people
> who can get the job done, than people whose only reason to be on the
> board is to be 'famous'.

Perhaps, but if we all sit back and think of people who would be good at
this, we'd probably only nominate "famous" people.  Furthermore, this is
a volunteer organization, and if people think that they're suited for
this job, and want it, they'll nominate themselves.
	Greg