[kq76]

What's your opinion on releasing passwords to defunct leagues?

I think mine is you try to get permission from the last commish and/or the founder and what they say goes. Should it only be one of those that matters though, and if so which one, or should both have to say yes? What if you can't get an answer from an ex-commish? How long do you wait for an answer? And if you've waited that length of time without an answer do you just go ahead and release it or do you just assume the answer would be a no? There's so many questions.

You might ask, "the league is defunct, what's it matter?". I agree, but sometimes leagues are taken back up and, personally, I wouldn't want to release the password of a league whose commish felt that they might like to resume it at some point in the future and wouldn't want it released in the meantime.

You might also say, "a league belongs to all its members, not just the commish". To that too I would agree, but you'd also probably have to agree that a commish generally puts a lot more work into a league than anybody else so maybe their opinion should be the only one that really counts.

Anyway, I'm torn. Not just for the league that I'm currently pondering this question about (it was a popular league so I'd like to for the benefit of any of its past members who'd like to play it again), but about any league that this question might come up about in the future. So, I'd like to hear what you all think.