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Re: [atlarge-discuss] Election Preparation
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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