John T. Hoffoss wrote: > On 6/27/06, Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> wrote: >> Then formally propose a change. Start a new thread. I'm sure we're >> all familiar with how voting on email lists go. Unless we actually >> see a formal, "Proposal: Lift Yahoo! Ban" email, we've pretty much >> come to the end of this conversation. > > Here I thought that's what we were doing...but in any case, let me start it off: > > Yes, Lift Yahoo Ban We're not really going to conduct a poll via e-mail, are we? There *must* be some FOSS solution for strong authentication (at least identity as confirmed by round-trip e-mail, if not GPG). When I edit my "members page" I am prompted for HTTP Basic Authentication so https://mn-linux.org has an identity database that we could use. So I'm advocating voting on a website (instead of e-mail) so that we can reduce the likelihood of gaming the vote and provide statistics. Didn't Bob refer to some website for the (older?) poll? I didn't dig for that URL because if we are starting a new poll I don't want to speak for the disposition of any previous infrastructure/poll. Regards, --Tom P.S. This challenge of making TCLUG decisions (what's a quorum, etc.) is (IMHO) much more important than any given issue (even Yahoo).