Re: [ga] [Admin] Removal of posting rights

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 16:15 11.04.2000 -0500, Dori Kornfeld wrote:
>Regardless of the content of messages and whether some messages are more
>"appropriate" than others, I think the GA is losing sight of its mission by
>engaging in censorship. The GA has already lost many valuable members and
>will no doubt lose more as the arguments continue. ICANN, in theory, is
>supposed to be an open process and the GA a forum in which interest parties
>and individuals may deliberate. Perhaps a better method of "regulating the
>noise" would be to send out notices that the GA list monitor suggests that
>subscribers make individual filters for particular people. At least then
>the GA members would be able to control their own content, and the GA could
>become a more credible and legitimate forum for open communication.

This has been suggested before. Practice has proved it ineffective.

Remember: At the moment, there are exactly TWO persons barred from posting 
on the GA list.

                     Harald

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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
Harald.Alvestrand@edb.maxware.no

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