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response 75 of 140: Mark Unseen   Oct 26 18:48 UTC 2001

1. To have a way to send out email notices to members from a secure, 
established email address recognized as belonging to the organization.

2. To create a low-cost informational website.

IM's also provide a way for organizational users of Grex to show their 
appreciation of Grex's services, but simultaneously keep our governance 
within the limits of the one individual-one vote restriction.
keesan
response 76 of 140: Mark Unseen   Oct 26 20:57 UTC 2001

So why not have one member of the organization join as a grex member?  OR
simply donate to grex if you don't want to vote, and you can still send out
email and have a website.  What do you gain by being a paid institutional
member other than incoming ftp and outgoing telnet?
aruba
response 77 of 140: Mark Unseen   Oct 27 15:09 UTC 2001

Sindi: One of the secrets of fundraising is to give people as many different
options as possible.  We added the idea of institutional memberships because
there was a demand for them.  Any institution is of course free to choose
the route you suggest, but institutional memberships give them another
option.
jp2
response 78 of 140: Mark Unseen   Oct 27 17:18 UTC 2001

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jp2
response 79 of 140: Mark Unseen   Oct 27 18:12 UTC 2001

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md
response 80 of 140: Mark Unseen   Oct 27 18:23 UTC 2001

That's a very good point: someone like Timmy, who has at least two 
separate personalities, should be able to buy one membership for each, 
no?  I'd extend the question by asking: are all of the personalities 
Timmy buys Grex memberships for entitled to separate votes?  If so, 
then Timmy could get Jamie elected all by himself.  You guys are in 
trouble.
jp2
response 81 of 140: Mark Unseen   Oct 27 18:29 UTC 2001

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other
response 82 of 140: Mark Unseen   Oct 27 18:33 UTC 2001

I think he should try it and see what happens.  Lessee, If I figure 
right, he'd have to buy at least 40 or so 1-month memberships at minimum 
to swing the vote for jp2.  Multiply by $6... That's a nice $240 bump in 
the Grex bankroll.  All right! 
janc
response 83 of 140: Mark Unseen   Oct 27 20:12 UTC 2001

I thought someone said the "member is a person" definition implies only one
membership per person.  I also seem to recall seeing a section saying that
for home-owner orginazations, if a person owns more than one home, then it
OK for them to have one vote for each property.  This would seem to suggest
that for other types of organizations this isn't true.
jp2
response 84 of 140: Mark Unseen   Oct 27 20:17 UTC 2001

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keesan
response 85 of 140: Mark Unseen   Oct 27 21:42 UTC 2001

I thought you needed a 3-month membership to vote.
krj
response 86 of 140: Mark Unseen   Oct 27 21:57 UTC 2001

Stock corporations, and homeowner associations, are organized on the 
principle that those who have more money at risk should have a 
proportionately larger voice.
 
Grex, even if we didn't remember to write it into the bylaws, is 
organized on the principle of one person, one vote.  Giving extra 
money to Grex is not supposed to get you more votes.  Philosophically,
that extra money was freely given; it is not a financial investment, 
like stock or real estate.   One can't buy stock in Grex.
jp2
response 87 of 140: Mark Unseen   Oct 27 22:02 UTC 2001

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krj
response 88 of 140: Mark Unseen   Oct 27 22:13 UTC 2001

I don't have the resources or time at the moment to debate the legal 
question.  Given the quality of most of your legal arguments, like 
the flat statement that photocopying a driver's license is a felony, I'm 
not too worried about it.  :)

I do tend to doubt that elections of every membership organization
in the state are open to the highest bidder, which is what you are 
stating.  It could be that the Grex bylaws need tweaking to defend a 
policy of one person, one membership, one vote.
jp2
response 89 of 140: Mark Unseen   Oct 27 22:17 UTC 2001

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jp2
response 90 of 140: Mark Unseen   Oct 27 22:22 UTC 2001

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scott
response 91 of 140: Mark Unseen   Oct 27 22:50 UTC 2001

We don't have to prove photocopying a license is legal.  It's on you to prove
it's illegal, and so far you've failed.
jp2
response 92 of 140: Mark Unseen   Oct 27 22:53 UTC 2001

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krj
response 93 of 140: Mark Unseen   Oct 27 23:07 UTC 2001

I've long noticed that Jamie is really big on "proof by assertion."
jp2
response 94 of 140: Mark Unseen   Oct 27 23:10 UTC 2001

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gull
response 95 of 140: Mark Unseen   Oct 27 23:17 UTC 2001

Notice the not-so-subtle trick in #94.  The argument is over whether it's
legal to photocopy a driver's license for ID purposes.  What he asserts in
#94 is that it's illegal to in Ohio *forge* a driver's license.  Big
difference.

Anyone want to bet his copyright arguments are similarly a matter of slight
of hand?
jp2
response 96 of 140: Mark Unseen   Oct 27 23:22 UTC 2001

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jp2
response 97 of 140: Mark Unseen   Oct 27 23:23 UTC 2001

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krj
response 98 of 140: Mark Unseen   Oct 27 23:45 UTC 2001

Jamie might think about the elements of fraud or deception required 
for a crime of forgery, and the difference between that and a photocopy
of an ID used as a second-generation, transmittable evidence that the ID 
exists.
 
US currency notes are not ID cards.
jp2
response 99 of 140: Mark Unseen   Oct 27 23:49 UTC 2001

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