Re: [nm-admin] Identification step in the current scheme (Re: Fear the new maintainer process)

[An Thi-Nguyen Le]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 03:42:51PM +0100, Mark Brown typed:
} On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 02:32:01PM +0000, Dale Scheetz wrote:
} > about the difficulties of providing "adequate" identification. I find the
} > technical argument (the applicant does not have access to scanners,
} > etc...) to be as weak, because it declares a lack of "connectedness" with
} > the "technological" society they wish to enter. This may sound harsh, but
} > then again, Debian isn't a life-raft where every living, breathing,
} 
} It depends on what sort of stuff you do.  Unless you actually want to
} scan in images there's no reason to have a scanner.  Computers, net
} connections - these things we can expect people to have access to.
} Scanners just aren't so generally useful and it's entirely reasonable to
} expect that someone doesn't own one and doesn't know anyone that does.

Wouldn't libraries and other such places usually have scanners for public 
access (or maybe, if they're clueless or harassed libraries, free access 
+ fee)?   (Not that I'm in any position to ascertain an accurate average 
sampling rate for scanners per square mile as I live on a university 
campus.)


-- 
An Thi-Nguyen Le
|An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
|      -- Michael Korda


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