Re: [atlarge-discuss] Election Preparation

[Eric Dierker <eric@hi-tek.com>]

Motivations and Interests are often tough to discern ahead of time.
Do you think we should bring the forum into the foreground during this 
time of transition?
I think we can do it if we want to do it.
I will trust the logic and numbers of debate on this issue.
Eric Dierker


> Then we must value BOTH equally, online forum and email list equally. 
> To date, the forum has been somehow shoved to the backshelf or
> something akin to that by the "elite" among us. Same with Joop's
> polling booth.  There are interests behind such tactics, no doubt.
> 
> --Sotiris
> 
> bruce@barelyadequate.info wrote:
> 
>> 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
>> bruce@barelyadequate.info
>> http://www.barelyadequate.info
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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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