Julian Mehnle wrote:
lock out visually impaired people. Good idea... not!
The MD5 idea is cute, I trust that there are no collisions ;-)
Won't work without real names, I refuse to compute MD5 sums
for Wayne's complete list only to check the published result.
Maybe you also could name a few countries that actually
restrict media coverage in the sense you implied.
It's either a convention or a law in DE, no more campaigning
on the day of the vote, no exit polls during the vote. In
the US with more than 3 timezones the situation is different,
no surprise.
people will always communicate if they feel the need
Sure. But pestering people on their way to the ballot box
would be a crime. In the US I'd simply shoot such offenders,
here I'd be forced to turn them in alive, because they don't
allow me to pack. "Old Europe" has its drawbacks... <eg>
Seriously, different cultures are just different. William's
idea to compare Usenet with "chat" is nonsense, even RfC 1855
got _that_ right: Mailing lists and Usenet in chapter 3, IRC
among others in chapter 4, and one-to-one e-mail in chapter 2.
SPF-DISCUSS is a mailing list, no chat, no US, no old Europe.
Another example, it's not "verboten" to vote for yourself in
my coutry, it's only considered as disgusting by some people.
Bye, Frank