<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jan 29, 2008, at 4:24 AM, Matthew Johnson wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I strongly agree with Christoph. As it is I am of the opinion that it is</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">too easy to get DM rights (particularly given the number of people who</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">said 'it ought to take 3 months to become a DD' in response to my</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">suggestions of NM reform). One of the things which tempers that is the</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">public way in which DMs are proposed, giving people the opportunity to</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">review the DM and react.</font></p> </blockquote></div><br><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Can you explain why you and Christoph think it is too easy to get DM rights?</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>No system is going to result in perfect uploads. The goal is to balance good uploads versus timely uploads. If there has really been only one controversial upload by a DM, then that seems like a very good track record in practice. It would be hard to improve on such a low rate of bad uploads.</div><div><br></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Lex</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>