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

["Cade,Marilyn S - LGA" <mcade@att.com>]

I find the minimal amount of process which Harald has established very
helpful in ensuring that the GA list can actually do work. I don't support
broad and invasive censoring, Dori, but the kind of paramaters I've seen so
far are extremely minimalistic, and are focused on trying to keep work on
track and not have GA be filled with non productive and even hostile noise
which makes it less likely that others will continue to remain. 

And, I've noticed that all removals are time bound, so there is always the
opportunity for a return to the list...

Marilyn Cade

-----Original Message-----
From: Dori Kornfeld [mailto:kornfeld@epic.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 5:16 PM
To: Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Cc: ga@dnso.org; Jonathan Cohen; ga-abuse@dnso.org
Subject: Re: [ga] [Admin] Removal of posting rights


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.

-Dori Kornfeld

At 9:06 AM +0200 4/11/00, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
>The enclosed paragraph is considered irrelevant to the business of the GA,
>a personal attack, insulting and slanderous.
>
>The posting rights of "Jeff Williams" are hereby suspended for 4 week
starting
>today, lasting until May 9, 2000.
>
>Decisions of the GA list monitor can be appealed to the GA chair.
>
>                        Harald Tveit Alvestrand
>                            GA list monitor
>
>
>At 01:02 11.04.2000 -0700, Jeff Williams wrote:
>>Andy and all assembly members,
>>
>>  As you know
>>Jonathan Cohen as a known pedophile has a vested interest in shifting
>>attention from that fact, to denigrating others in a manner as public
>>as possible so as to keep his particular life style in the background.
>
>
>--
>Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
>Harald.Alvestrand@edb.maxware.no
>
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