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

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Vittorio and all,

  Yeah, I got several of these as well.  Tells me that the "Changes"
and the person that made them were not done correctly or not
proper specified "Changes".  I bet that this is/was a human error!

  Of course this is what happens when you have incompetent people
making such "Changes".  And such is all to typical of ICANN staff
members historically.

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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