Re: [ICANN-EU] Re: A first summary...

["Cameron Smith" <cameron_smith@mail.com>]

I agree with Patrick here.  I am from the UK, I work in IT and am 
fairly familiar with all the issues surrounding ICANN and its 
elections as I have been following them for a while.

However I don't have the time to follow every latest development 
about ICANN - for this reason I am not on half the MLs I would like 
to be on, simply because I'd never manage to read all the 
messages!  Therefore I do rely on media, both online and offline, to 
act as filters for me.  I'm aware that they are 'filtering' the whole 
story but that's a price I'm willing to pay.

Finally, a note about on vs. offline media: in the UK, I have relied 
almost entirely on the online media: the offline media have been 
weak to the point of negligible in their coverage of the ICANN 
election process.  Even the Financial Times, normally the best 
daily newspaper for this kind of stuff, has had almost nothing.

cameron smith

>From:           	patrick.mayer@gmx.de

> Thomas Roessler wrote a profound analysis.
> 
> Thomas,
> 
> while I agree in your very good analysis on Andy's success and it's
> reasons, please don't underestimate the impact of this list. We know that
> especially the offline media guys are reading it.
> 
> I think this list's success was also it's trouble. There was simply too
> much traffic sometimes. People needed the filtering by traditional media.
> 
> Third, I think that we underestimate the number of what I would call "Otto
> Normaluser", people who have a certain interest in the Internet and it's
> administration but are no hardcore list or usenet users. I know a bunch of
> them who registered for ALM (I dont know how far it took them in voting etc.),
> but they do not have the time to keep up with such a list.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Patrick
> 
> 
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