RE: [ga] Archives of VeriSign's Domain Policy Mailing List

["Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@verisign.com>]

I personally made that fact known but I will not argue with either of
you about it.

Chuck

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Corliss [mailto:patrick@quad.net.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 4:41 AM
> To: Gomes, Chuck
> Cc: [ga]; Brian O'Shaughnessy, Verisign
> Subject: Re: [ga] Archives of VeriSign's Domain Policy Mailing List
> 
> 
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 14:47:59 -0800, William X Walsh wrote:
> > Tuesday, Tuesday, January 08, 2002, 12:46:14 PM, Gomes, Chuck wrote:
> >
> > > Patrick,
> >
> > > We made it very clear that the decision made with regard 
> to the Domain
> > > Policy List was made for legal reasons.  You may disagree with our
> > > counsel but we pay them to protect us so we listen to 
> them when they
> > > speak.  If that is FUD, so be it.  I call that sound 
> business practice.
> >
> > Ah, but no, Verisign never made that clear.  As a matter of fact,
> > Verisign REPEATEDLY denied, to both us and to the press, that legal
> > issues had anything to do with the closure of that list, 
> and insisted
> > it was a coincidence.
> 
> Hi Chuck
> 
> I think I must agree with William X. Walsh here.  In fact I 
> already posted the
> notification from Tom Newell dated Tue, 24 May 0101 11:13:49 
> -0400.  This
> said:
> 
> > This list will be closed effective immediately.  When
> > we started the list many years ago, there were no lists
> > specifically focusing on domain policy issues.  Today
> > there are a wide range of public lists that address
> > this topic.
> 
> There is no indication here that the list was closed for 
> legal reasons.
> 
> However, I'm afraid you completely missed the point.  I was 
> not referring to
> the closure of the list as "misinformational" but to Tom's 
> last paragraph
> which said:
> 
> > Please refer all queries to Brian O'Shaughnessy, of
> > VeriSign's Corporate Communications department at
> > boshaughnessy@verisign.com.
> 
> I did this, Chuck, and got no reply.  Why was that?
> 
> Why say "refer all queries to Brian O'Shaughnessy" when you 
> apparently have no
> intention of replying to those queries.  In fact I can give 
> similar examples
> of non-responses from other VeriSign officers.  And that's 
> without even
> talking about VeriSign's "expired names" policies.
> 
> In fact, my query went to the heart of the most fundamental 
> aspect of a
> mailing list viz. could VeriSign allow us to have access to 
> the mailing list
> archives?
> 
> With or without the contentious emails.
> 
> Best regards
> Patrick Corliss
> 
>

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