toke
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posted on September 28, 2001 08:55:02 AM new
Hey D-2...
What do you think of that move??? Feel free to email, if you prefer.  BTW, I changed my address to:
[email protected]
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gaffan
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posted on September 28, 2001 09:08:33 AM new
The outgoing board, just before they accepted their own resignations. I'm pretty sure the first any of us heard about it was when it was posted to a board there.
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toke
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posted on September 28, 2001 09:23:11 AM new
Wow. Talk about vindictive...
edited to ask:
Have you three decided to accept the positions?
[ edited by toke on Sep 28, 2001 09:25 AM ]
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krs
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posted on September 28, 2001 09:33:50 AM new
#1 humbly accepted.
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gaffan
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posted on September 28, 2001 09:35:05 AM new
Nice of someone to ask . The previous board certainly didn't.
I think we're each aware that if we don't, the organization is screwed because there would be no directors and no way to appoint any under the bylaws. (It is difficult, btw, to think of a single situation that the existing bylaws actually handle, clearly and unambiguously.) There are also open questions about the sequence of events, the determination of the validity of the election, etc. which still require input from some legal types. Things are still in a state of flux, and anybody who expects the sun to break from behind the clouds in the next twenty minutes is going to be disappointed.
-gaffan-
[email protected]
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toke
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posted on September 28, 2001 10:03:14 AM new
Am I to take it by your rather nebulous answer, that you, Ross and Leon haven't all decided to serve, as of yet?
I certainly hate to see the OAUA go under, so I hope you all find the strength not to rend one another to tiny bits, if you do accept.
A new election would be great.
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KatyD
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posted on September 28, 2001 10:08:46 AM new
Am I to take it by your rather nebulous answer,
nebulous, Toke? Is that the same thing as snide? 
KatyD
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Hepburn
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posted on September 28, 2001 10:11:10 AM new
sigh
Toke is here...have to drag out the ol handy dandy dictionary
Katyd, does nebulous and snide mean the same thing as smarmy?
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toke
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posted on September 28, 2001 10:17:09 AM new
KatyD...
Golly, I dunno. I'm just a poor, insignificant member. Heck, I don't even know who this Leon is...
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Hepburn
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posted on September 28, 2001 10:20:35 AM new
Toke, maybe it would fit better if you said "lowly", seeing as how all the members are being talked DOWN to, that is, when they are spoken to at all. Perhaps not enough people started off with "Massa, may I speak?" in their posts, and that is why the ex BOD's wanted the last laugh? Now they get Lord Shiva and a Parrot.
[ edited by Hepburn on Sep 28, 2001 10:21 AM ]
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KatyD
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posted on September 28, 2001 10:21:34 AM new
LOL!
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toke
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posted on September 28, 2001 10:26:06 AM new
No way, Hep. I may be humble, but not low. Short, maybe....
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Hepburn
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posted on September 28, 2001 10:27:49 AM new
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gaffan
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posted on September 28, 2001 03:49:25 PM new
Toke, maybe it would fit better if you said "lowly", seeing as how all the members are being talked DOWN to, that is, when they are spoken to at all.
Really? Do you have, maybe, like, an example?
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toollady
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posted on September 28, 2001 04:08:05 PM new
gaffan,
Maybe the talking down was before the BOD manifesto?
I know I was talked down to, prior to the resignation. That is why I am no longer contributing.
Good Luck to the three of you. You have a long road ahead of you.
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Hepburn
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posted on September 28, 2001 04:11:53 PM new
Really? Do you have, maybe, like, an example?
Like, uh, try that one above for size, maybe.
[ edited by Hepburn on Sep 28, 2001 04:12 PM ]
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gaffan
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posted on September 28, 2001 04:30:04 PM new
My apologies, Hepburn. I had no idea that asking you to back up your statements with facts was offensive to you.
-gaffan-
[email protected]
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dman3
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posted on September 28, 2001 04:59:19 PM new
WOW Don't bother sending the pumpers the OAUA didn't go up in flames it imploded.
http://www.Dman-N-Company.com
Email [email protected]
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deliteful
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posted on September 28, 2001 05:39:45 PM new
What are you all talking about?
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Hepburn
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posted on September 28, 2001 05:48:26 PM new
Gaffan, now that youre big man on campus, dont you have other worries to worry about rather than being here and playing with me?
Or should I call you Gaff? Everytime you open your mouth you prove my point again. So why should I have to dig for back up? Saves me time and effort.
Your turn, Gaff (since you arent needed elsewhere, it seems).
[ edited by Hepburn on Sep 28, 2001 05:51 PM ]
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snowyegret
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posted on September 28, 2001 05:51:01 PM new
What an eyeful!!!!!
It's almost Nixonian.
Good luck.
You have the right to an informed opinion
-Harlan Ellison
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dman3
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posted on September 28, 2001 06:08:56 PM new
it's even worse then Nixonian.
its like the the OAUA is the engine of a plane that has stalled out and the person in the hot seat dont know how or what it takes to start it or get it running again.
Above everything else the OAUA is a business with things that need to be done daily for its good and survival and it hasn't done anything in over two days and its not looking good that they will get done anytime soon.
it like a union shop where both labor and management are all on strike at the same time and they left the cleaning people to fill orders and run the machines.
http://www.Dman-N-Company.com
Email [email protected]
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chococake
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posted on September 28, 2001 06:48:44 PM new
dman - that's one of the best descriptions I've heard yet.
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joice
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posted on September 28, 2001 06:57:35 PM new
Hepburn,
Enough, already.
Joice
[email protected]
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deliteful
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posted on September 28, 2001 07:01:25 PM new
Joice,
Can you explain what this thread is about?
No one seems willing to answer.
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twinsoft
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posted on September 28, 2001 07:07:40 PM new
Gaffer, Ross isn't the prez, but he was named First Director. I don't know what was in the heart of the previous BODs, but I do suspect pyth00n has it right. The old BODs picked the very worst candidates they could think of to run the show, out of spite.
I know you said you would not run for election and I don't have any reason to disbelieve that. OTOH, at least one other director is warming up to his new role, taking an iron fist approach by locking up message threads critical of the new leadership. OAUA is supposed to be an organization that represents auction users. Already we're seeing an adversarial stance from the new BOD, even more so than the last bunch.
Since Ross isn't allowed to post here I won't discuss him personally. For the good of OAUA I hope he remembers he is only a placeholder, nothing more.
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dman3
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posted on September 28, 2001 07:20:33 PM new
Twinsoft I disagree I don't think they choose
or picked the worst candidates, What they have done is pick just a few of the least likely for the time.
If these guys can get a group togeather and hold a new election really quickly so business can move forword I think things will in the end work out fine but they will have to be quick and take some of the advice many are trying to offer...
http://www.Dman-N-Company.com
Email [email protected]
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loosecannon
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posted on September 28, 2001 07:39:03 PM new
deliteful
The thread is about the OAUA---Online Auction Users Assoc.
They are having problems with elected officers resigning, leaving the organization in the lurch, and the future of the organization looks bleak right now.
Does that help?
I was a member a long time ago. Don't even know if I still am. Come to think of it I haven't got a newsletter in a while.
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deliteful
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posted on September 28, 2001 07:46:36 PM new
Loosecannon,
So all of these posts are about the same thing? And all of it is about some group of auction users?
Sounds like a messed up group of people from what I have read here. So why the interest in these people here in the Round Table? Are they all posters here?
Never mind, I don't think I really want answers. Just talking out loud. I was curious, but now I think it best not to know anything.
Thank you for taking time to acknowledge me, I do appreciate that.
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dman3
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posted on September 28, 2001 07:52:16 PM new
loosecannon
I registered as a member there way back near there begining and it was so long since I had last logged in I have changed email addresses 4 times.
took me four days of hunting through my old papers to find my user name and password but it all still works.
http://www.Dman-N-Company.com
Email [email protected]
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