RE: [ga] Increased foreign attendance

["Debbie Garside" <debbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Veni 

I'm not known for giving up :-)

Best regards

Debbie 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Veni Markovski [mailto:venimarkovski@xxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of veni markovski
> Sent: 28 June 2007 17:49
> To: Debbie Garside
> Cc: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ga] Increased foreign attendance
> 
> Dear Debbie,
> perhaps now you can see for yourself why people at this list 
> are quite quiet - if someone like you makes any attempts to 
> bring the discussion to the common sense, he or she will be 
> blamed immediately as someone who either a) doesn't 
> understand, or b) has no knowledge [of this long history].
> 
> Now that I think about it, it reminds me very much of the 
> Soviet propaganda from the 1970s. "The world imperialism", 
> "the international situation", "progressive humankind" and 
> such cliches were in the daily news, 365 days every year, and 
> in intercalary years it was 366 days when i was hearing such spells.
> 
> However, to end at a positive note - I think what you are 
> writing makes more sense than many of the other cliches we 
> see around ICANN. 
> It's always good to hear someone new, unencumbered with this 
> long history.
> 
> Don't give up! And don't pay attention to the negativists.
> 
> Best,
> Veni
> 
> At 08:15 6/28/2007  -0700, sotiris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > Hi Danny
> > >
> > > Thanks for the outline.  I can, somewhat, understand your 
> frustration.
> > > However as an observer I can perhaps see why, I have been 
> subscribed 
> > > to this list since December 2006 and from what I can see the 
> > > majority of posts are highly critical of ICANN and not in any way 
> > > constructive; it is the constructive aspect that is missing.
> >
> >Well, Debbie, here's some food for thought for you... those 
> of us who 
> >have been on these ICANN mailing lists since 1998 have seen our 
> >constructive input completely ignored for 8 years before you came 
> >along.  Perhaps we're a little tired of being ignored? More 
> than just a little frustrated...?
> >Perhaps we're tired of obsequious johnny-come-latelies of the "civil 
> >society" sort showing up who know nothing of the history of 
> ICANN and 
> >telling us how to be constructive?  Perhaps you should familiarize 
> >yourself with ICANN history before you come out scolding those of us 
> >who have been members of these mailing lists as well as 
> original ICANN 
> >At-Large Members for many years before you even knew there 
> was an ICANN...
> >
> >SS
> 
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