RE: [atlarge-discuss] Election Preparation

[<bruce@barelyadequate.info>]

Sotiris Sotiropoulos wrote:

|  I, for one, prefer the forum for these purposes... 
|  so much more
|  convenient than downloading the oftentimes huge volume of email 
|  from this list
|  (along with the spam that inevitably sneaks in too).  In fact, I 
|  would say that if
|  we want to be more efficient and low-bandwidth friendly, we 
|  stick to the online
|  forum entirely for these purposes.

I, on the other hand, prefer the e-mail forum, since I don't have to be connected to view messages.  This is important in my life, since between work, school and the DAV, I not home very long during the week (except to sleep!), and my employer frowns on using the computers at work for personal use (and is tracking network usage to curb such behavior!). So the e-mail messages give me the freedom to read from my PDA when I'm commuting, or from a laptop computer when I'm on the road.

Bruce Young
Portland, Oregon USA
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|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: Sotiris Sotiropoulos [mailto:sotiris@hermesnetwork.com]
|  Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 8:12 PM
|  To: espresso@e-scape.net
|  Cc: atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de
|  Subject: Re: [atlarge-discuss] Election Preparation
|  
|  
|  
|  
|  espresso@e-scape.net wrote:
|  <snip>
|  
|  > I've got nothing against forums per se but isn't it time
|  > we started recognizing that our proto-organization is
|  > *one* entity whose name, for better or worse, is
|  > ICANNATLARGE.ORG and which needs to pull together and
|  > run one election process rather than have one set of
|  > people on the mailing list and another set on the forum
|  > while the people who don't hang out in either get left
|  > out?
|  
|  Such "people" have no business among us then, and I bet most of 
|  them are phonies
|  anyway, or at best proxy votes for the Benedict Arnolds among 
|  us.  I'll say it
|  again, democracy is participatory.  If they don't participate, 
|  how do we know they
|  exist, or that they're not simply proxies?  No Judyth, I think 
|  Joop's proposal is
|  quite sound.  I, for one, prefer the forum for these purposes... 
|  so much more
|  convenient than downloading the oftentimes huge volume of email 
|  from this list
|  (along with the spam that inevitably sneaks in too).  In fact, I 
|  would say that if
|  we want to be more efficient and low-bandwidth friendly, we 
|  stick to the online
|  forum entirely for these purposes.
|  
|  Sotiris Sotiropoulos
|  
|  P.S.  Judyth, some of us are still waiting for your "proposal" 
|  for a voting
|  mechanism, remember?  :-)
|  
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