Re: On trusting people (Re: [ga] Majordomo 'who' command (fwd))

[Joe Baptista <baptista@pccf.net>]

Thank you for your answer.

On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:

> At 21:07 13.01.00 -0500, !Dr. Joe Baptista wrote:
> >I knew you'd give me bullshit back Harald - please try again .. whom in
> >this list do you trust.  To give your adled brain some flexibility - whom
> >would you trust to take your children out for a walk.
> 
> Michael, of course. I want to meet people before introducing them to my 
> children.
> 
> >   Or to be more
> >specific - whom in this list would you trust to be scrutineers in a vote,
> >or election officers.  Try not to reply with more bull - a straight answer
> >to a straight question.
> 
> Now this *is* a straight question: Which of these would I trust *as 
> scrutineers in a GA vote*?
> On this issue, none of the below have given me reason for distrust, so if 
> they volunteered, I'd accept them. (Caveat: Some names I don't associate 
> much with - another argument for making such a procedure public, so that 
> objectors can object).
> With, of course, the caveat that their actions have to be reviewable; 
> that's just normal procedures. (Rules for Norwegian elections include the 
> provision that when some election officials leave the room where the count 
> is taken, people from at least 2 political parties remain present...)
> 
> (if you infer from the above that I care more for my children than for the 
> GA - big surprise!)
> 
>                         Harald
> 
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> Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
> Harald.Alvestrand@edb.maxware.no
>