Interesting Development: Two FOC Members, Terry Vibbert and Wayne
Praeder, have resigned but have offered to serve under new rules. The
proposed rules are linked below. Bill Goichberg has come out in favor
of the new rules and I too find the new rules to be reasonable and an
improvement.

Here is a quote:

"As communicated before, for months now, the FOC has not been able to
work effectively. Wayne has developed an opinion piece which outlines
the need for change in the current process. It can be found at
http://members.aol.com/wpraeder/bbs.htm . We strongly urge you to
consider empowering the moderators with strong moderation powers
backed by a revamped AUG. We honestly believe that this is the future.

"With that challenge in mind we have drafted a new proposed acceptable
use guidelines shell for consideration which can be found at
http://members.aol.com/wpraeder/newaug.htm ."

As I read the two pages they cite

http://members.aol.com/wpraeder/bbs.htm
http://members.aol.com/wpraeder/newaug.htm

They are resigning because of pressure from members of the Executive
Board to ban certain posters and because of threats by certain members
of the Executive Board to shut down the USCF Forums altogether.

The two links above are worth reading because they contain interesting
material.

Sam Sloan