[atlarge-discuss] What do you have people voting on this week ?....and what difference will it make ?

["Jim Fleming" <JimFleming@ameritech.net>]

What do you have people voting on this week ?....and what difference will it make ?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joop Teernstra" <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>
To: "Jan Siren" <sirenj@earthlink.net>; <atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de>
Cc: "walter Schmidt" <walts@dorsai.org>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 3:50 PM
Subject: [atlarge-discuss] Correction


> At 06:16 p.m. 28/03/2003, Jan Siren wrote:
> >espresso@e-scape.net wrote:
> > >
> > > My personal inclination, I think, would be to e-mail the last batch
> > > of .ORG members and ask them to contact Joop themselves if they want
> > > to "opt-in" for the Polling Booth process. That way, you wouldn't
> > > be violating their privacy or committing ICANNATLARGE.ORG to
> > > accepting Joop as webmaster/listholder/decision-maker but those
> > > members would still have a chance to vote if they wanted to.
> > > Would sending that sort of message to 20-or-so members (Bcc, of
> > > course) seem like a reasonable solution to you?
> > >
> >
> >I went ahead and did this.  I sent a copy of Joop's Polling Booth
> >announcement, with a brief covering note of explanation, to the 17 e-mail
> >addresses that were on Vittorio's list but not also on Joop's list.  Doing it
> >"BCC" took me a little longer than it would have by putting all the names in
> >the "Mail to" field; but it is a nod to privacy.  (We should be examples of
> >what we want cyberspace to become.)
> 
> [I said without thinking]
> *************
> Thanks, Jan.
> This is a reasonable solution under the circumstances.
> The important thing is that, if possible, no member is disenfranchised.
> 
> On what day did you do this?
> *****************
> I must have been half asleep when I wrote this last night.
> These 17 people will find a closed Booth and they will have no key.
> 
> The only way to let them participate at this late hour is to let me enter 
> their email addresses in the Booth's database and let the Booth generate 
> their personal passwords.
> If you send me the email addresses within the next 24 hours, I can extend 
> the closing date and give them a 48 hour opportunity to vote.
> 
> 
> -joop-
> 
> 
> 
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