In  on 04 Nov 2009 14:57:11
+0000, Matthew Vernon  wrote:

>Dick Gaughan  writes:
>
>> I should have made it clearer that my comparison with my RL
>> experience was intended to be with the _method_  - i.e., the
>> canvassing outside of uk.* in the chiark-only IRC - and not with
>> those who have been reading unnm, had access to the debate and
>> statements of all the candidates and will therefore be voting with
>> informed views.
>
>You assume that people on chiark IRC have not been pointed to the CFV
>and discussion in unnm. AFAII, that is not the case.

Thank you for telling me what I assume. Do you actually have "A"
level telepathy or is this just another of those "exaggerations"
you're so fond of?

When discussion of the election is taking place in a private
medium, participated in by the four of the candidates who are
members of that private medium and are acting as a bloc in pursuit
of a shared agenda, but excluding the other candidates, then
regardless of how harmless it might seem to those involved, in the
absence of anything to go on others are likely to interpret it as,
at best, very dodgy.

-- 
DG