[NA-Discuss] ICANN Discussion Lists are For ICANN Discussion

[Dharma Dailey]

My point is not a defense of off-topic items- it was that we may not  
all agree of what is on-topic and what isn't.     Whether one  
particular email is off topic really doesn't deserve much discussion.   
That's why god made the delete button.  The bigger question is the  
question of efficacy.   Clearly, their is a range of opinion on what  
is relevant what is not, what is effective action, what is not.


My read of what is in the purview of  "NARALO promotes and assures  
North American user participation...."  is in the inverse of Evan's  
with hooking issues of concern to internet users to ICANN issues when  
possible -- and being honest when there is no relationship-- at the  
top of my list of effective actions.       Is there room for that  
position within NARALO or not?





> Although I can definitely understand where Dharma is coming from, I
> would have to agree with Evan.  I get around 100 e-mails per day off  
> of
> various discussion lists and such.  If discussions get way off topic
> then it becomes really tedious trying to weed out the wheat from the
> chaff.
>
> D
>
> Darlene A. Thompson
> Community Access Program Administrator
> Nunavut Dept. of Education / N-CAP
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: na-discuss-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org
> [mailto:na-discuss-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Alan
> Greenberg
> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 3:30 PM
> To: na-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org
> Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] ICANN Discussion Lists are For ICANN
> Discussion
>
> Evan, I think you have it pretty well covered.
>
> If this were a really active list, perhaps it would be ok to add a
> side-list on non-ICANN topics. But without such activity, I worry
> that it would become *the* list, overshadowing things-ICANN, or
> simply be another dead list.
>
> Note that there ARE topics related to spam and phishing that can be
> viewed as within ICANN's purview, specifically those related to the
> misuses of domain registrations, but even in that narrow topic, there
> are questionably issues that are outside of ICANN's range.
>
> Alan
>
> At 17/12/2008 02:47 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>> Hi Dharma,
>>> I read Greg's post last night and had the exact opposite reaction
> that
>>> you had.   I thought,  "This is an informative, clearly written
> piece
>>> on an important issue that concerns internet users which is
>>> understandable for general audience--- a model of what we should be
>>> doing on ICANN issues."  -and I learned something from it.
>> That the piece was educational -- or even valuable -- was not the
>> concern of my post.
>>
>> ......
>>
>>
>> What do others here think?
>>
>> - Evan
>
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