[ga] Curiouser and curiouser...

["Richard Henderson" <richardhenderson@ntlworld.com>]

.........eeeeek!

As far as I know, I have never corresponded with Mr Jonathan Cohen. I don't
think he's ever met me. I've never solicited a message from him.

Now comes this strange and strangulated diatribe out of the blue.

Is this a spoof or genuine?

Does this man need counselling?

As my great-great-uncle Lewis Carroll once said: "Curiouser and
curiouser..."

I sometimes feel like Alice in Cyberland, wandering about an alien and
generally very unfriendly universe, never quite sure what I will encounter
next.

Its a world where black is often white, where open is opaque, where you
think you're falling bottom-up, when in fact everything is top down, and the
virtual seems to have stolen all reality...

Now this...

Who is JCohen anyway, and as I'm British, is he addressing me? Well, yes, he
is... I see my name down there on the cc list...

I wait for 130 days for a reply - or some "decent debate" - from Dan
Halloran, who seems to have fallen down a rabbit hole into a parallel
universe... but no trace of him anywhere when you want to ask him some
questions

But now... this bizarre message from the ICANN Board

"The time has come" the Walrus said "to talk of many things..."

My uncle Lewis could never have imagined that Cyberland would be like this.

Or as the Queen of Hearts said :

"Off with their Heads!"

Richard Henderson

----- Original Message -----
From: Jonathan Cohen <jcohen@shapirocohen.com>
To: Jim Fleming <JimFleming@ameritech.net>; <vinton.g.cerf@WCOM.COM>;
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<vivek@vivekdurai.com>; todd glassey <todd.glassey@worldnet.att.net>;
Richard Henderson <richardhenderson@ntlworld.com>; Kristy McKee
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Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 8:17 PM
Subject: RE: "The reform committee continues to refine its proposals..."


> And will those who disagree stop villifying, name calling ,cheap shotting
> because they dont get their way.Will people from 'some ' country stop
> invoking its world view on every aspect of ICANN and the Internet.Will
> ,those who dont like directions or decisions of ICANN stop whining to
> Congress or the DOC,will they take the time to check their facts,.Bob
Dylan
> said it in a song a long time ago .....''try spending a day in our shoes''
> ,as VOLUNTEERS, at considerable personal cost in time,energy and
MONEY!!Try
> listening to the push and pull from every direction,the criticism,the
> Politics,the Rhetoric, name calling AND WORSE,while you try to do the Best
> Job you can.Noone on the Board expects sympathy or "flowers"...But it
would
> sure be refreshing to get some 'Balance'and some decent debate ,where if
you
> dont win you shake hands and try again later...But maybe thats
''culturally
> biased''  see you around the "Ranch"


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