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Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier  

A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.

Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych


John H - Jan 01, 2003 10:06:13 pm PST #1967 of 10001

Neither of them has the 'active' box checked.

What's that about?


DavidS - Jan 01, 2003 10:06:16 pm PST #1968 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Can I have permission to delete them/inactivate them?

Delete. Even if its not the same person (and it probably is), it's willful mischief to use the name at this point and bad form.


Consuela - Jan 01, 2003 10:07:20 pm PST #1969 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Jon, tell him that username is disallowed. I assume it's a different email addy?


victor infante - Jan 01, 2003 10:07:39 pm PST #1970 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.

I like Ita's method. It's clever.


§ ita § - Jan 01, 2003 10:07:42 pm PST #1971 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

E-mail addresses have to be unique.


John H - Jan 01, 2003 10:08:31 pm PST #1972 of 10001

As for /mieskie, you can't deactivate him usefully until he's validated his membership.

OK got it.

Shall we change the password right now?

I'm a bit confused about the right thing to do.

More to the point, who wants to send him email from the Admin account, and how should it be worded?


Lee - Jan 01, 2003 10:08:56 pm PST #1973 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Hopefully secret message to Kat, since I've never white fonted before.

Thanks. I'd like that. I even signed up for the F2F, since it's Buffistas and local.


John H - Jan 01, 2003 10:09:47 pm PST #1974 of 10001

I like Ita's method. It's clever.

But he might think he hasn't been noticed sneaking back, just that he made a mistake with the password.

Someone should tell him outright that we see him trying to do it and we want him to stop.


billytea - Jan 01, 2003 10:11:04 pm PST #1975 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I say it's a weird-ass name and it's not a coincidence.

I would recommend sending an email giving the reason for the deletion. (I don't know if this is already standard procedure?) Someday we could well have a genuine coincidence, after all.


Jon B. - Jan 01, 2003 10:11:40 pm PST #1976 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

perkins - you forgot to close the font tag, which caused the post(s) below it to also be white-fonted! I fixed it.