[New-imc] Mayday IMC

[behindthemask at riseup.net]

It has been some time now since Mayday IMC proposed their new IMC to this
list [1]. The application seems to have reached an impasse, due to Bart's
objections [2]. In order to try to facilitate the process through which
Mayday achieve IMC status, I would like to try to clarify Bart's position.

Bart, are you blocking Mayday's application as it stands? If so, could you
please elaborate why exactly that is and what the collective can do to
overcome your objections? I will take what I think are the most important
objections from your most recent email [2] and ask you to clarify what you
mean by them.

"I do not trust your reassurances [regarding the use of anti-abuse
measures] as they lack reflection on the betrayal against the users of
IMC-UK."

Is this sufficient to make you block the proposal? If it is, what will be
sufficient for you to withdraw that?

"How come that SchNEWS was able to present a list of articles posted by a
certain IP? Who collected this data? What did they do with it? Do further
dossiers exist? Are the person responsible for this betrayal designated
admins of mayday.indymedia.org?"

I would like to ask Bart to clarify whether the answers to these questions
 will be critical in deciding whether Mayday become an IMC or not. If they
are, I would request the Mayday collective to respond to these questions.

I hope that people will be able to respond quickly in order to get this
process moving again.

btm


[1] http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/new-imc/2011-February/0203-u1.html
[2] http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/new-imc/2011-April/0409-zf.html