Re: [wg-review] Clarifications requested from BoD, Staff, NC, TC,Chair prior to co-Chair elections

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 02:16:31PM -0500, Sotiropoulos wrote:
> 1/12/01 9:56:37 AM, Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com> wrote:
> 
> >One of the major concerns of those opposed to an individuals
> >constituency, in any form, is that it would be a magnet for angry
> >individuals with "axes to grind".  The vast majority of people don't
> >have axes to grind, and don't have time participate, so the angry ones
> >will take over the constituency.  But angry individuals with axes to
> >grind are not representative of individuals in general. 
> >This is not just theory, of course -- to date this has been observed in
> >every single attempt to organize an individuals constituency.  I think
> >it is this phenomenon, incidentally, which led to the board's cooling
> >toward Joop's IDNO -- initially there was support on the board, but that
> >evaporated when it became clear that the IDNO was a code name for the
> >"anti-ICANN" constituency.
> 
> I already asked this one, but you did not reply:

That's right.  I try to avoid answering stupid provocative questions,
though, sadly, I am frequently too weak to resist. 

>  What is your purpose for being on this List?

Arguing my point of view.

[childish nonsense deleted]

-- 
Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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