Re[2]: [ga] GA Chair

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

Hello Robin,

Wednesday, February 28, 2001, 4:22:27 AM, Robin Miller wrote:

> I personally don't care what others think a personal attack is - what I've seen
> here in this thread would have been considered a violation by the TOS's I had
> to follow when working for two different online services. These attacks go a
> long way to driving average people away - since online services are in the
> business of getting people to subscribe and stay online, you can imagine why
> these rules are strictly enforced. Some people think that driving people away
> might be the point of these attacks, but I tend to believe that its just to get
> some kind of emotional kickback and no conspiracy theory is involved at all.

There was no personal attack of any kind, and you are absolutely wrong
about any Online service that would consider it one.

Under your rules, anyone who disagrees with a nomination for an office
cannot post why they think that person is not suitable for the
position?

Under your rules, Robin, all of your posts critical of things inside
ICANN would be attacks that violate the supposed TOS's of these
online services you claim would characterize those posts as personal
attacks.

Sheesh.

Everyone is on this "personal attack" bandwagon, where anything said
about someone that they don't agree with was an attack.  This has gone
all the way up to include even our appointed moderator.  I was not
criticizing the person, I was criticizing his suitability for a
position for which he was nominated.  You may not like that some
people will take exception with someone you may like, and may point
out reasons why that person is not suited for a position of
leadership, but that doesn't make the criticism an inappropriate
personal attack.

-- 
Best regards,
 William                            mailto:william@userfriendly.com


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