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Re: [ga] Throw-away PR - is that what you want?


On Thu, 9 May 2002 11:49:53 -0700, William X Walsh
<william@wxsoft.info> wrote:

>Thursday, May 09, 2002, 11:42:04 AM, Thomas Roessler wrote:
>
>> On 2002-05-09 13:39:57 -0400, James Love wrote:
>
>>>Is there a "PR value" in a statement from the GA?  I would hope  
>>>so.  That would mean that people actually care what the GA says.   
>>>How could this not be clear, both on and off list?  And how would  
>>>it be a bad thing if a GA statement was actually noticed by  
>>>people?
>
>> What a wonderful world - Ralph Nader's Consumer Project on  
>> Technology (and its director, James Love) doing free PR for the 
>> DNSO's General Assembly.
>
>> Bad enough, what I've seen so far points in the opposite direction:  
>> The Consumer Project on Technology's director trying to abuse the GA 
>> as a throw-away public relations tool.
>
>> So, once again, the question to everyone involved with this: Do you  
>> want that?  Do you really think that a little PR booster for a  
>> campaign of CPTech is worth giving up on the GA?
>
>> Think twice, and respond, please.  Your responses may quite well  
>> influence what's going to happen.
>
>That's an easy one.  The core supporters for this motion were
>originally those with close ties to the alt.root organizations, such
>as a former new.net employee, members of the ORSC and TLDA, etc.

I support the motion and am none of the above.

DPF
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