RE: [ga] 305 Voters

["Ladi" <dnso@ladi.net>]

I would like to thank everybody who has responded, off-list and on, to
my various small ideas. Several resources have been pointed out that I
will take a look at later and perhaps we should think about how to make
them more publicly known. In fact, that general issue of "making things
known" seems to be the major problem here; all of the work we do at this
level could very well amount to a small stand against a large wave. It
seems to me that the more the general public is aware of how issues like
domain policy can affect *them*, the better the fight goes, so here's
another idea I'd like to throw out:

I'm sure most of you remember and still run across the Blue Ribbon
Campaign against internet censorship. The Blue Ribbon captured
widespread attention and was posted on thousands -- perhaps millions --
of homepages. Its very presence indicated to casual surfers and IIRC,
mainstream press, of how important that issue became to them. Many of
these people probably didn't know *exactly* why they were posting the
ribbon, but they felt it was important enough to them as a fairly
average user.

How about a smiliar campaign?

~Ladi

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Williams [mailto:jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com] 
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 3:40 PM
To: Ladi
Cc: 'ga@DNSO.org'; DNSO Council
Subject: Re: [ga] 305 Voters


Ladi and all assembly members,

  I know our members {INEGroup] have done some of what Ladi is
suggesting here.  I think her ideas are good ones as do a large number
of our members and other associated organizations with our group.  I
would suggest that the NC take this up in Stockholm, but I doubt it will
get much consideration as the DNSO is short on budget as well as having
problems with determining where that budget comes from and how it is
generated.  Therefore it is really the DNSO GA assembly members
responsibility with our own resources to "Get the Word Out" to the
stakeholders.  We [INEGroup] do some of this through our my posts and
receiving posts from this ML as they are reposted to our internal ML's.

Ladi wrote:

> Just a few random ideas on my way out the door (and some of these are 
> entirely selfish because I'm tired of getting funny looks from my 
> friends when I tell them to find a good international copyright lawyer

> before selling their desirable domain name to someone in Europe who 
> emailed them randomly):

<snip>

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