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On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 8:47 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. |
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<wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Saturday, November 12, 2016 8:21:53 PM EST Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>> This is silly. You're suggesting that Comrel is out to mount some |
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>> kind of coup. At the very least it betrays a lack of understanding |
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>> about how things work since about the only thing Comrel can actually |
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>> do is submit bugs for Infra to actually implement. |
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> Does infra have the authority to deny comrel? Infra simply processes requests, |
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> they cannot deny. |
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If Comrel starts submitting requests contrary to Council instructions, |
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I suspect folks in Infra are going to eventually notice. |
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It isn't like Comrel has the power to kidnap people and lock them up |
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in a dungeon. If they go booting somebody they're not supposed to |
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obviously they're going to tell somebody in charge, and it would get |
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dealt with. |
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We're really getting into tinfoil hat territory here. You might as |
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well argue what do we do if somebody on Infra logs onto our boxes and |
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changes all the root passwords and kicks everybody out, then calls up |
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the hosting companies and tells them to change the contact info, and |
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then impersonates the officers and updates all the corporate |
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registrations. |
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Yeah, maybe in some hypothetical scenario such a thing might be |
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possible. Then we pick up our phones and call each other up and get |
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things straightened out. Sure, somebody in a position of power could |
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probably take down the website for a few days or whatever, but it |
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isn't like everybody who contributes is just going to say, "oh, I |
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guess there is no Gentoo, oh well..." |
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Rich |
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