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RE: [atlarge-discuss] Election Preparation
Well said Bruce,
Can we reach an accord?
I think probably the e-mail form helps open and transparent communication
while the other maybe better for reflective voting in our living rooms or
Internet cafes.
It is a tough call and one that does not require personal attacks which
this posts points out so well.
Eric Dierker
> 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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