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Index of Subjects Dear Leo, While many of the suggestions contained here are useful and welcome, I must take strong exception to the (largely hidden) suggestion here which will eliminate the use of the IP Database in the IP registration procedure, and with it the ability of our volunteer pool to access such information simply, in my view, for administrative convienience. It is my view that the development and implementation of IP Database and Group Editor are the most useful and progressive developments and tools we produced on the CCN in terms of administration of our Information Providers. They are not only a central repository of information, they have allowed us to maintain what coherence we have with respect to our Information Provider base. More than that, however, they empower and enfranchise our pool of volunteers - the CCN Editors and members of the IP Committee. They allow them to play a hands-on role in the administration of Information Providers and to access information, and inform themselves about the status of such. They are *key* tools and they represent *key* principals. The notion of eliminating the IPDB has never been on the table at the IP Committee meetings and the only rationale ever offered for this proposal is that 'time is of the essence', which, seems to me to be utterly vacuous. The IPDB has never limited turn-around times of IP applications. Rather it has been (if anything) IP Training or the rate at which the applications themselves moved on the process. I think this is a poor decision and I would urge that all information pertaining to CCN IPs continue to be made available through the IP Database so that volunteers in the IP sector are able to find out who IPs are, their contact information, who are members of their edit groups and majordomo lists, etc. and (if it is necessary) take administrative steps based on that information. Kind regards, Christopher Majka _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. Christopher Majka <aa051@chebucto.ns.ca> Editor-in-Chief: Chebucto Community Net - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada URL = http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Home.html _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._.
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