Re: [ga] New mailing list: icann-people.

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joop and all former DNSO GA members or other interested stakeholders/users,

  As you have been repeatedly told, very few stakeholders/users are
interested in using "Webfora" as you put it.  So one question for you,
when will you ever learn this basic internet lesson?

Joop Teernstra wrote:

> At 11:24 p.m. 9/09/2004, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> >Folks,
> >
> >I feel that the ICANN community is currently lacking a place for
> >reasonable online discussion -- all there is is icannwatch and a
> >couple of blogs; the GA list seems mostly dead.  As an experiment,
> >I've set up a moderated mailing list named icann-people; please join
> >at <http://lists.does-not-exist.org/mailman/listinfo/icann-people>.
>
> Thomas,
>
> Just two simple questions:
>
> 1. Why did you discontinue to host www.democracy.org.nz which contains IDNO
> archives and pointers to the IDNO archives?
>
> 2. In your goodbye letter to the ICANN -Europe list that you also recently
> discontinued you mentioned several blogs and fora.
>
> Why did you not mention icannatlarge and its webfora?
>
> >I'll run the list the autocratic way: No message is distributed
> >unless I, personally, believe it is appropriate, and reasonably
> >relevant to the ICANN community.  I'm specifically *not* doing this
> >wearing *any* hat but "too long-time ICANN participant."
>
> Your frustration stems from a feeling of having been conned?
> Or from an inability to find support from the others who are "too long-time
> ICANN participants?
>
> >When (if?) enough people have come together, I'll send an initial
> >posting to let subscribers know.
> >
> >(As I said, this is an experiment.  It may quite well fail.)
>
> What will you consider  success?
> In other words: what is the mission statement of the list-owner-without-hat
> (beyond conducting an experiment)?
>
> Best regards,
>
> -joop-

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