Posted (by Herbert Vaughn): Sun Sep 24, 2006 1:42 pm

samsloan wrote:

Herbert Rodney Vaughn, a/k/a tanstaafl, states that he
wants to file a 300 page long ethics complaint against me.

Actually, I am looking forward to seeing this document
he says that he has created. However, he says that he
wants to submit it on CD, not on paper.

The Committee Chairman has already rejected this, and
rightly so, because a CD costs one dollar, but submitting
it on CD would put the office staff and the individual
members of the committee to the trouble and expense
of printing out this 300 page document.

I never said I wouldn't submit one copy on paper. That's all I
was told I had to do.

samsloan wrote:

Already, Herbert Rodney Vaughn is complaining about
the expense TO HIM of printing out this 300 page
document. But there is more. He wants the USCF office
staff to make COLOR COPIES of this entire 300 page
document and distribute it to each member of the Ethics
Committee.

I wasn't COMPLAINING about the cost, just recognizing that
the costs wouldn't be insignificant. I tried to suggest more
convenient alternatives.

samsloan wrote:

Obviously, this cannot be allowed. If Herbert Rodney
Vaughan seriously wants to create a 300 page ethics
complaint and have it considered by the Ethics
Committee, he needs to make at least one copy for
each member of the Ethics Committee, one copy for
the office and one copy for me. This must be done at
his expense, not at the expense of the USCF.

That's not my understanding of the process, but as I said
before I will try to accomodate the committee.

samsloan wrote:

What Herbert Rodney Vaughn obviously intends to do
is download 300 pages of Internet newsgroup postings.
I doubt that the Ethics Committee would be willing to
read and consider an ethics complaint created in this
way, but that is their concern, not mine.

Sam Sloan

Mr. Sloan, while we are on the subject of the CONTENTS
of my complaint, may I have your permission to include
your copyrighted material in the complaint? You don't have
anything to hide, do you?

[Herbert Vaughn] wrote:

I think it would be a major expense and inconvenience
for the office to make copies of the documents.

[Herbert Vaughn] wrote:

I will of course supply the material in whatever form the
committee prefers. I would think it would be much easier
to for the committee to go through the material in
electronic form. ... How many copies will the committee
need? If it's not too many, I suppose I could provide
(print) more than one color copy of the originals -- though
this starts to get rather expensive. ... I don't object to
supplying this information in hard-copy -- I'm just trying
to offer alternatives that will make it easier for the
committee to work with the information. ... Would you
object if I suppied CDs in addition to the printed material
with the same information on both?

Mr. Sloan, how do you get from my comments, to a statement
that I was trying to push the expense off on the office?