Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom
From: hoey@aic.nrl.navy.mil (Dan Hoey)
Date: 1995/04/24
Subject: Re: Rumors I need clarified about TAFF

b...@intersec.demon.co.uk (Bernard Peek) writes:

> Any activity that attempts to influence the administrators, other than
> through the ballot, should be made public -- in the interests of TAFF.
> I see such activities as being no better than the ballot-rigging that
> was alleged by the originator of this whole sorry mess.

You're suggesting that administrators may not privately seek advice of
people they trust on issues relating to TAFF administration?  You'd
rather it be thrashed out on Usenet, right?

> I can, and do, expect anyone else with the information to make it
> public.  Until then the integrity of the TAFF system has been
> compromised.

I tend to believe in greater openness in the process of voting and
administration.  But if someone can escalate fragmentary reports
of a disagreement between friends into allegations of compromised
integrity, that's the best argument I've seen for keeping the process
secret, to an even greater degree than has been done here.  Until
you came up with this, I thought, "but who would do such a thing?"

Dan
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil