Re: [ga] Utility of the GA

["Jim Fleming" <JimFleming@prodigy.net>]

I think the value of New.Net domains just went up a notch....

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2001/07/fyi0138.htm
For Your Information: July 3, 2001
The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following actions:

Application for approval of non-affiliated Internet service providers (ISPs)
and alternative cable broadband ISP service agreements:
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Jim Fleming
http://www.DOT-Arizona.com
http://www.DOT.Arizona


----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Kelsey" <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us>
To: "[ga]" <ga@dnso.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 4:26 PM
Subject: [ga] Utility of the GA


> William X. Walsh writes:
>  > Wednesday, July 04, 2001, 12:22:19 PM, William S. Lovell wrote:
>  > > I would think so, but would first add one point. It seems to me that
any
>  > > continued refusal to abide by established posting procedures (whether
>  > > or not one agrees with them) should in itself -- and even if
expressed
>  > > with utmost politeness and nice clean words -- and more importantly
>  > > any attempt unilaterally to change those procedures, without the
input
>  > > of the rest of the GA more or less in the manner expressed above,
>  > > should itself be grounds for suspension from posting privileges.
>  >
>  >
>  > So then you agree that hte posting privileges of our Chair and
>  > Co-Chair should be revoked for implementing a unilateral change by
>  > adding sub lists, and then trying to force subjects off the main list
>  > as off topic since they have a sublist that they created on their own?
>
> Yes.  I agree with Mr. Walsh that I have seen an incredible amount of
> inappropriate behavior by both the Chair and Co-Chair.  I do not believe
> that either is a fit representative of the will of the GA.  Under their
> direction, the GA list has become the haven of spammers and children,
> people with absolutely no sense of the history of the debate whose only
> desire is to promote their own selfish, money-making schemes to the
> detriment of free and open exchange.
>
> I do not believe that the GA serves any useful purpose any more.  The NC
> should disband it and ICANN should concentrate their efforts on the
> At-Large Membership in hopes that useful ideas will come from it.
>
> /Joe
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