response 301 of 326:

Nov 19 16:26 UTC 1995

Not a chance.

response 303 of 326:

Nov 19 18:03 UTC 1995

Me.

response 305 of 326:

Nov 19 20:18 UTC 1995

Okay, I'll admit it, I'm mlady (2).

I won.

response 307 of 326:

Nov 20 08:49 UTC 1995

VGlad that the borg passed the motion.
  
disagree that newuser is the "place" for the info. If a login is around
long enough (long on wisdom or time <apologies to login wisdom>) that
login will find some reference to the situation and make a decision.
  
for one, and if this is an appropriate location/forum/etc., i would
request that  tsty  be "reserved" at the event of my death, providing
that I have been around (logged in) during the previous 12 months. If the
reaping policy changes i might alter the time element, above. 
  
we all shuffle off this mortal coil sooner or later. Some "residue" of
my existence is important to me. Grex may be the sole repository of
such "residue." Substitution of 4 characters for this one character
doesn't seem to be such an overwhelming burden. Thankxx, Borg.

response 309 of 326:

Nov 20 15:17 UTC 1995

...sure sounds like debra...

response 311 of 326:

Nov 20 23:24 UTC 1995

Fake.

response 313 of 326:

Nov 23 13:27 UTC 1995

Anyone who wants to reserve a loginid today, for any reason, be it a
deceased friend or personal prejudice, may do so, simply by (a) running
newuser and making the account, and (b) logging in at least once every 3
months to ensure it doesn't get reaped.  Staff will also refrain from
reaping an account for a specific length of time, if requested.  Staff
are quite keen on reducing unnecessary CPU load, and maximizing resource
usage, and so will be quite willing to create a mail alias or make other
suitable arrangements to reserve a loginid, if that would avoid the
necessity to create the actual account.  That is, while staff would not
be willing to reserve "mlady" in perpetuity (or even 5 years), they'd be
quite willing to reserve "mlady" for the next year - and to extend that
reservation year after year, as long as you keep remembering to ask.
All of this is either well established system policy, or simple logical
extrapolation out from there, and requires no real software change.

So, there is no necessity to vote on *any* specific proposal if somebody
merely wants the ability to reserve a specific loginid for a specific
amount of time (like up to one year) for a reasonable reason (which
*need not* be limited to just death.).  Basically, that *is* the de
facto state of affairs.  It only takes a membership proposal if you (a)
want to allow perpetual reservations (which in my mind are nearly
pointless) (b) you want to burden the already overly long newuser Q&A
with yet more invitations to tie up system resources, or (c) you DON'T
want any sort of reservation to be possible.  Don't forget, too, (c)
puts us further out on the slippery slope of verification.

response 315 of 326:

Nov 23 21:32 UTC 1995

That just requires a file of perpetually reserved logins. I propose
another file of perpetually un-reserved logins (for when the current
use expires).

response 317 of 326:

Nov 24 02:47 UTC 1995

Um, well, in my opinion, the board voted for a silly but minor change to
what had been the de facto state of affairs.  It's probably not a
problem unless somebody starts killing off all the mary's & steve's on
grex, and somebody else tries to reserve all those loginids.

response 319 of 326:

Dec 1 14:39 UTC 1995

I disagree!  If someone sstarts killing off all the marys and steves on grex,
it's a *big* problem.  :)

response 321 of 326:

Dec 6 19:27 UTC 1995

The steve collective?

response 323 of 326:

Dec 9 23:55 UTC 1995

        Yes, the steve collective. We have been assimilated. Resistance
was futile.