Re: [ga] Has the T L D A dis banded?

[Karl Peters <tlda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mr. Baxter, (and others now curious)
  It is most disingenuous for you to suggest that you did not know 
where to get information about the TLDA just a short time after our 
private exchange in which I explained the loss of my computer overnight 
to a hard drive failure and lacked the passwords and e-mail accounts 
already set up to deal with list operation payment and now the response 
to your very public "questions" for which you already had the answer 
privately. I expect this kind of behavior from you and am not surprised 
or hurt. That's the way it is on these lists where no one feels any 
personal responsibility for anything they write.
  As for the elections, as I have explained before, those are for 
members and yes, the members did vote and a new Board and committees 
have been formed, each with new people added to replace those that are 
naturally revolved out as per our by-laws, three times a year. Any 
member should have been able to give you the newly elected officers if 
you had asked. I would have, had you asked me when you asked me about 
the list operations. I'm sure you would have made some attempt at 
discrediting us anyway, though, so it really would not have changed 
much, would it?
  The TLDA is as alive and well as it has ever been. All TLD holders 
are encouraged to join us and work for a better tomorrow for our 
industry and all its participants. (www.tldainc.org) As an aside, I 
regularly use another technology to communicate with board members that 
far out-performs mail list technology and keeps us going just fine. I 
call it the telephone. It was in use long before mail-lists and still 
makes for better communication of ideas. While it may not be effective 
for the GA here, it certainly keeps the TLDA moving just fine, even 
without some single other tool for a few days. I have given you my 
number a couple times. Try calling me when you have a question about the 
TLDA. Or, just send me your number and a good time to call you. It 
really works, but only for people willing to stand for what they say 
when confronted by real people.
  Any other questions may be directed to me, Karl Peters at 
tlda@xxxxxxxxxxx. Thank you to the GA list (Again) for this space to 
address this kind of question...
-Karl E. Peters, President
Top Level Domain Association, Inc.