Roberto and all my friends, I totally agree with your assesment that determining what the purpose of the ALAC lists are is important. However I would think that as the ALAC is supposed to be for USER access and participation in ICANN which has been and still remains largly non-existant, and user issues as part of the ICANN mission and areas of responsibility that pertain to users. As a user myself, that covers allot of ground and many, many issues as well as some new issues that may, and will surely come along. Ergo, the participants should determine what is and what is not an ALAC issue that ICANN should be aware of, or is directly/indirectly related to ICANN mission. And frankly Frank, I personally block GMAIL entirely, but not this list forums Email address. GMAIL has proven to be less than reliable, violates individuals/users privacy, and is populated with scammers and spammers as well as a target for same as multipul reports from a significant variaty of sources have reported frequently. I also am very interested in anything Roberto has to say however irrelevant, disagreeable, intently hurtful, disgruntled, enlighteneing, useful, informative, or otherwise his remarks, comments, ect., may be. Same is true for your Frank, only a different Email provider will be necessary for me to recieve such from you directly or Google changes it's policies and practices, unless you post same to this list forum. I can only suppose that Google will change it's policies and practices when and if it recognizes that its estimated loss in revinue from our members is in the neiborhood of $380M/yr. at last estimate done by our accountants. I personally look forward to that day when they do. But I am not holding my breath waiting! Roberto Gaetano wrote:
Franck Martin wrote:
From now on you are in my troll category.
Better late than never!
On a more serious tone, I am in favour of adopting industry standards of good practices, rather than to reinvent the wheel. We have accumulated wide experience in mailing list management with inappropriate cross-posting, excessive postings, irrelevant (or off-topic) subjects, and so on. The conclusion is always the same: either the list is meant to be the soap box in Hyde Park, and will best suited by a certain set of rules (or lack thereof), or is meant to be a working environment, and will consequently adopt a different set of working procedures.
So the first step is for the ALAC to decide what is the purpose of this mailing list, and then simply adopt the set of rules that will allow the purpose to be achieved.
Cheers, Roberto
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