Re: [ga] GA Chair

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

WXW, Robin, and all remaining assembly members,

  IMHO, WXW's response to Robin here proves up Robin's point nicely,
however unfortunately....  A sad commentary indeed....  :(

William X. Walsh wrote:

> 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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