Harald,
I think you did the right thing when you told us about this. My
understanding from the messages I have seen, also from the respons from
Mike Roberts, is that the way the ICANN office has handled this matter
is quite good.
We need a mechanism to "validate" persons, and the mechanism used is
quite simple and effective. After all the noise on varoius ICANN lists,
the number 10.000 out of 140.000 is suprisingly low.
It is in the interest of the At Large membership that ICANN performs a
minimum check before a member is entered into the Membership database.
If no check was made, the At Large membership would never be accepted as
serious group.
Best regards,
Alf H
Harald Alvestrand wrote:
>
> At 17:57 20/11/2000 +0100, Christian Schultz Kommunalberatung wrote:
> >thanks for your looking into ICANNīs office. It has confirmed my thought
> >that there must be a great disorder in this office. Meanwhile Iīm not more
> >surprised about this because I have some months experience with the ICANN
> >staff. With 60.000 not activated memberships there rests no doubts who could
> >solve this problem for these members.
>
> Christian,
> when you say like this, I start wondering whether I should have kept my
> mouth shut.
> The fact that 10.000 addresses out of 140.000 could not be resolved by the
> postal system does NOT say anything about the order or disorder in the office.
> It ONLY says something about the quality of the addresses that made their
> way onto envelopes.
>
> Harald
>
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