RE: Rules was [ga] FYI:Google's chief legal officer slapped with SEC fines

["Debbie Garside" <debbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Roberto wrote:

> If this list goes back to 
> reasonable business, the many subscribers who are even 
> avoiding posting as of today might become active again. Worth a try?

Indeed. Something that a number of list members are trying to bring about
with the introduction of Rules.

Best

Debbie


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roberto Gaetano
> Sent: 26 July 2007 07:53
> To: 'Joe Baptista'; 'Debbie Garside'
> Cc: 'Joshua Brady'; 'Jeff Williams'; 'Lauren Weinstein'; 
> 'vinton g. cerf'; 'SEC Enforcment'; 'General Assembly of the 
> DNSO'; 'icann board address'; 'Paul Twomey'
> Subject: RE: [ga] FYI:Google's chief legal officer slapped 
> with SEC fines
> 
> I think that I have to partly agree with Joe, here.
> To somehow associate Vint with the actions that a current 
> colleague of his did when he was working for a previous 
> employer is not defamation. To my own metric, it is just plain silly.
> And it is true, all is fair on this list, that's why nobody 
> is taking it seriously. Libel and slander, to be effective, 
> need to come from a somewhat authoritative source, not from 
> children playing in a sandbox. If this list goes back to 
> reasonable business, the many subscribers who are even 
> avoiding posting as of today might become active again. Worth a try?
> Best regards,
> Roberto
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Baptista
> > Sent: 26 July 2007 03:49
> > To: Debbie Garside
> > Cc: 'Joshua Brady'; 'Jeff Williams'; 'Lauren Weinstein'; 'vinton g. 
> > cerf'; 'SEC Enforcment'; 'General Assembly of the DNSO'; 
> 'icann board 
> > address'; 'Paul Twomey'
> > Subject: Re: [ga] FYI:Google's chief legal officer slapped with SEC 
> > fines
> > 
> > Debbie Garside wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > >Joe
> > >
> > >As you are the List Monitor, I, and the list, expect 
> better from you.
> > >Nobody is fair game.  This is the GA forum not a public 
> > >hanging/slanging match.  Please read the email from the Chair.
> > >  
> > >
> > 
> > But this is a public hanging/slanging list.  Thats the way 
> it's become 
> > and has been for some time now.  I look forward to the day we have 
> > list rules in place, then it will become the productive 
> place it was 
> > ment to be and at one time was.
> > As it is today any thing is fair game.  So as it stands 
> Jeff has every 
> > right to do as he pleases.  If we want to change that - we need the 
> > rules back in place.  Rules at this stage are critical to moving 
> > forward.
> > 
> > regards
> > joe baptista
> > 
> > 
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