The Russian elections are next weekend! Jouni<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Valentin Villenave</b> <<a href="mailto:v.villenave@gmail.com">v.villenave@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">2007/11/26, Jouni Snellman <<a href="mailto:jounisnellman@gmail.com">jounisnellman@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
> France is always special. I am wondering if there´s any progress in Russia.<br><br>???<br>Please explain :)<br><br>> On Nov 26, 2007 4:56 PM, Helmut Pozimski <<a href="mailto:helmutpozimski@web.de">helmutpozimski@web.de
</a>> wrote:<br><br>> > I am wondering if there's any progress in France. I read some really<br>> > emotonial discussions in your forum but there don't seem to be a<br>> > solution yet. What are your plans, do you plan to leave the situation
<br>> > with two coexisting parties? Which party is officially registered yet?<br>> > Shall we link to both Websites in the wikis?<br><br>Hi Helmut,<br>I wish Andrew, Rick or anybody more important than us frenchies had
<br>anything to say about this issue...<br><br>As far as we're dealing with it now, we've spent a few days typing the<br>whole IP address in our browsers to access our portal and forums; no<br>need to say that quite a bunch of our members got lost in the process.
<br>We're currently getting a new domain name; you can try, for instance,<br><a href="http://www.partipirate.org/">http://www.partipirate.org/</a> (we don't know yet if this is the one<br>we'll definitively retain).
<br><br>By the way, many many thanks to Andy for proposing us a temporary<br>webspace; as we've luckily kept our server, we shouldn't be needing<br>it; however as you've noticed, the main help we do need will be all
<br>about "legitimacy" issues. Plus, all the work we had begun, promoting<br>and sponsoring artists etc. is just wasted now: how can any artist,<br>author, musician etc. trust us if someone else is yelling all over the
<br>Internet that we are pure bullsh*?<br><br>As I've already told you, we would certainly have gladly welcome any<br>proposal to create an alternate Parti Pirate branch. We're all for<br>diversity, and we do believe each opinion and way of thinking has its
<br>legitimacy, as long as it remains democracy-compatible. I think two<br>Parti Pirates /can/ coexist, in a pacific and friendly way. (Now,<br>/should/ they? This is another question.) But if the only purpose of<br>the latter is to destroy the former, this is simply wrong. We have no
<br>time to spend responding to false accusations, counter-flaming etc. No<br>time, no courage, no patience and no strength: we're all just too sad<br>and disappointed.<br><br>But then again, we're still alive :)<br>
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