[At-Large] ALAC Mailing List Changes - an update

[JFC Morfin]

Vittorio,
this is why I opened a moderated Internet @large list at 
http://atlax.org. I do not want to advertise it too much because 
france at large plans to carry a technical review on the best way to 
support the Internet Governance various Fora and @large groups, and 
even possibily enginerr or develop a management tool based upon our 
height years of experience of the issue and ICANN.

That list will be what @larges want it to be as per their rough consensus.
jfc




At 14:41 02/08/2008, Vittorio Bertola wrote:

>Ok - the first attempt to send this message (just replying to a message
>from the global public list) got me back a "you're not authorized to
>open your mouth" message.
>Let's see if this other address works.
>
>At-Large Staff ha scritto:
> > Dear ALAC List members:
> >
> > Earlier today, I emailed you about some of the changes to the worldwide
> > At-Large lists, however, I misunderstood a part of what was intended with
> > respect to the new working committee list.
> >
> > It is actually intended that this list will be viewable via the open
> > archives (and, since the mailing lists are all connected to forums on
> > atlarge.icann.org, you can see the list traffic there too), but 
> not that you
> > would be able to subscribe to it, as per the ALAC resolution at its July
> > meeting, and in line with other similar lists such as the GNSO Council.
>
>This effectively means that the rest of the community can't participate
>in a discussion with ALAC members. If I had to comment on something that
>an ALAC member said, what I would have to do is:
>- spend my time pressing F5 in my browser on the Web archive of the
>"public" ALAC list so that I can notice that a new message has been sent;
>- read it through the impractical, year-1995-style mail-to-list
>interface that ICANN provides;
>- select and copy the text;
>- open a new message in my email program, directed to the global At
>Large list;
>- paste the text as quote (hoping that my email app lets me do so);
>- add my comment;
>- manually add into the address list the person I am replying to, since
>it won't be there by default and I'm not even sure whether he/she'll be
>reading the global list;
>- presumably add some text to explain what I am replying to, since no
>one on that list will have seen the message before.
>
>Do you really think that this is a reasonable proposal?
>
>Also, is this list (the global one) being left to its destiny as Mr.
>Williams' personal dump? If that's the case, I don't see how we can have
>a discussion here either. It's just like the ALAC, rather than putting
>some effort into moderating the list and ensuring a reasonable
>environment for discussion with its community, prefers going away and
>preventing any outside participation.
>
>Regards,
>--
>vb.                   Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu   <--------
>-------->  finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/  <--------
>
>
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