reminds me of late 1996 right here... http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,34126,00.html ICANN CRACKDOWN: Trying to muzzle criticism of ICANN's foibles is a task as hopeless as Orrin Hatch placing above dead last in a presidential primary, but one group is trying it anyway. It started when the operators of a mailing list run by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers surreptitiously censored the forum. In response, some critics started venting. A note that Roberto Gaetano, the chair of an ICANN subgroup, sent on Friday warns members of the "general assembly" mailing list that a crackdown on said miscreants was about to begin, complete with appointed "sergeants-at-arms" to eject unapproved posters. [...] *********** Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 12:58:56 +0100 From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ga] Exclusion of Jeff Williams for 2 weeks The list monitor has received a complaint from Joe Kelsey about the post apparently sent from Jeff Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> that is archived at the URL http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc03/msg01214.html The list rules say that: - The messages must be relevant to the business of the GA - The messages must observe a minimum of decorum, including: - Not indulging in personal attacks, insults or slander - Not using offensive language This message does not observe a minimum of decorum, is a personal attack, and uses offensive language. Therefore, I declare that the person known to the list as "Jeff Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" has had his posting privillege to the GA list revoked for 2 weeks, starting today, February 7, 2000, and lasting until not later than Monday, February 21, 2000, 12:00 GMT. The substance of the offending posting is reproduced below. Appeals may be addressed to the GA chair. A personal note: This action does not relate to the opinions brought forth in this message, which is no different than the opinions expressed in many other messages from the same person. The action relates solely to the way in which those opinions are expressed. Harald T. Alvestrand List monitor ------------ The main text of the offending message ----------- >Unfortunately, and sadly I am sure the Roberto, Harald, Kent, and >William Walsh "The Four Horse-Shitters" are glad to see them >go. The major interest of Roberto and Harald especially is new >members (Sheep) to fertilize with their Horse Shit... -- Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway [EMAIL PROTECTED] ********** >Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 10:43:31 -0500 (EST) >From: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >I wish to protest the labelling of the lists at >http://www.dnso.org/archives.html > >It is extremely misleading to identify all the archival GA lists as "with >rules". There was, for a substantial period of time, no censorship. At >some undefined point, censorship was applied secretly and arbitrarily. It >is a falsification of history to call this "with rules" or indeed to >suggest that there is a continuity between that secret, arbitrary process >and the current, far more open, and perhaps less arbitrary process. > >Please, could the person responsible for maintaining this site -- which I >hope is a person different from the one who conducted the secret and >arbitrary censorship -- make appropriate adjustments ASAP? One useful >distinction would be to identify the point at which the secret filtering >began and segregate the historical lists accordingly; another would be to >distinguish between the recent period in which there was no filtering, and >the current regime. > >Finally, although this is not an issue of historical accuracy, but just >one of convenience, would it be possible to have a link to a page with >subscribe instructions for the various lists mentioned on this page? > >PS. I commend to you the practice of breaking up the archive according to >some predictable metric (monthly), with URLS that have dates rather than >arbitrary numbers such as "00" or "01". That makes it much easier to find >stuff, and keeps files down to a reasonable size. > >-- > >A. Michael Froomkin | Professor of Law | [EMAIL PROTECTED] >U. Miami School of Law, P.O. Box 248087, Coral Gables, FL 33124 USA >+1 (305) 284-4285 | +1 (305) 284-6506 (fax) | http://www.law.tm > -->It's warm here.<--
