[At-Large] (not really about) Travel Funding

[jefsey]

Dear Roberto and Evan,
IMHO the real problem is the real use of all this. Some are 
interested in being or wining, others are interested in thinking or 
doing.If you think of all the time you/we spent on the ICANN lists, 
what is your/our estimated personal ROI? I must say that mine is 
purely to have learnt mail-combat trick and practised the way online 
smoke screens work. If you do not need that knowledge elsewhere, what 
is the use?

This mail system has deployed as a system for occidental addicts (the 
first time the word "trip" was used, it was in relation to 
cyberspace). It seems to be a too time/money costing or less exciting 
addiction for non-occidental cultured minds. As are Chess and Go. 
ICANN is going to go: will it hurt you less or more than if Vegas 
closed their Casinos?

jfc

PS. The day ICANN will pay attention to the GA and @larges they will 
show it in paying for a professional relational tool serviced by 
neutral professionnals publishing working summaries of the IGF 
secretariat quality.

At 08:36 28/09/2009, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>Roberto Gaetano wrote:
>
> > Not all North Americans and/or Europeans have "thick skin" and use abusive
> > language disguised in free speech. Actually, most of them are pretty
> > civilized and able to sustain a calm conversation, and even to listen
> > carefully.
> >
>This is true, however I still maintain that there are some cultures and
>traditions that simply shun this kind of behaviour. I suggest that many
>in North America and Europe, even those who would not themselves be
>aggressive, are de-sensitized to those who are. There are some other
>environments where such conduct is simply shunned.