[At-Large] Postings from staff at atlarge.icann.org vs postings from individuals

[Thompson, Darlene]

Well, if nothing else, having e-mails come in to all three of you will
be a good learning exercise for the new people.  Now that we know who
"ICANN Staff" is, its not so much of a problem, in my POV anyways.

Cheers,

D

Darlene A. Thompson
Community Access Program Administrator
Nunavut Dept. of Education / N-CAP
P.O. Box 1000, Station 910
Iqaluit, NU  X0A 0H0
Phone:  (867) 975-5631
Fax:  (867) 975-5610
E-mail:  dthompson at gov.nu.ca
 

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[mailto:alac-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Nick
Ashton-Hart
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 2:30 PM
To: Evan Leibovitch
Cc: At-Large Worldwide
Subject: Re: [At-Large] Postings from staff at atlarge.icann.org vs
postings from individuals

Thanks Evan for your thoughtful reply.

What I had it in mind to do was to is prepare a brief note which
summarises the various roles we each fill, now that the posts are all
filled :)

It may take us a couple of weeks to put this out - apologies for that -
but with two new people learning their way around we are not operating
at 300% of what we were with just me yet as you can imagine. We will be
very soon though!


On 03/04/2008 19:02, "Evan Leibovitch" <evan at telly.org> wrote:

Nick Ashton-Hart wrote:
> Since there have been various queries and concerns raised about how
and why postings which come from the 'corporate' staff account, I
thought I would mention the reasons why the account exists and why and
when we use it.
>
As one who has been raising this specific issue, I appreciate and
understand the answer.

It still will be helpful to know which of you "owns" each specific
initiative -- you're not clones of each other and I'm sure not
everything you do is by committee. It's important for the people you
talk to, to know the main point of contact in any specific initiative,
together with the understanding that any of you can fill in for the
other as needed.

Personally, I would still prefer to work with individuals -- especially
on small details -- leaving the group address to issues that really do
involve multiple people. I still don't believe that the impersonal
character of the group email suits a part of ICANN designed to address
the concerns of the public. It's like my telephone company's "automated
phone attendant" -- superbly efficient, I'm sure, from the POV of
service delivery but intensely irritating nonetheless. Still, it's not
something I'll lose sleep over if you don't agree.

- Evan



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