Re: [council] GA Chair nominations

[Victoria Carrington <vcarrington@shapirocohen.com>]

Nigel, I think we all have the same
problem.  It seems every second message I read has the words
SELECTIVE CENSORSHIP in great big letters and the observation that the
sender cannot post to any of the DNSO lists.  Admittedly I haven't
examined the headers in great detail - I simply don't have the time right
now, with work and IPC matters, (perhaps if I didn't have to scan through
20 unconstructive messages, most of which are probably written by one
person masquerading as a number of different individuals, for every one
that is truly relevant to some real issue, there would be more time left
over).  But in my more frustrated moments (such as now), it occurs
to me that "censorship" may possibly not be the best word to
describe a situation where not only can the alleged censored
person's posts be read by everyone else involved in this process along
with the writer, these "censored" posts cannot even be
avoided by leaving the very lists the person is allegedly being
censored in!  How can these people possibly claim they are being
silenced?  Their "silence" is so deafening that hardly
anyone else's voice can be heard and people are being driven to flee from
the lists just to avoid the noise. 

V.







At 03:57 AM 03/12/99 , Nigel Roberts wrote:
> I have the same problem.
>
> I have asked 'David Jenson' not to send me email
> and he persists.
>
> I resigned from the GA list as a result partly
> of his email bombing and still it comes!!
>
>
> Elisabeth Porteneuve wrote:
> > 
> > Please check the dnso.org main page, then GA Chair 
> nominations.
> > I will be back in Paris this evening, then ready to close
> > the nominations.
> > The secretariat is permanently snowed with Jeff Williams
> > messages (more than hundred this morning) sent to explicit CC or
> BCC
> > lists.
> > 
> > Elisabeth

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