John and all, An old saying goes, "if the dog hadden't stopped to do his business, maybe he would have caught the rebbit". Point being that, although I agree with your sentament, I am not sure that a lurker user would. Users should beaking these decisions for themselves, not staff making such decisions for them! The ALAC should service the user. -----Original Message-----

From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> Sent: Apr 13, 2008 7:22 PM To: "Jacqueline A. Morris" <jam@jacquelinemorris.com> Cc: At-Large Worldwide <alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org>, Nick Ashton-Hart <Nick.Ashton-Hart@icann.org>, NA Discuss <na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] [At-Large] ALAC Draft Accountability Framework and Conflicts of Interest Policy

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And if after giving everyone the tools and supporting them over a period of time, there's no activity, then yeah we can do something about it.

Maybe if we've heard nothing from an ALS for a year, we should take them off the list. But I entirely agree that this is among the least urgent actions for the ALAC.

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