[IDNO:321] a democracy can defend itself

Joop Teernstra (terastra@terabytz.co.nz)
Mon, 14 Jun 1999 13:26:36 +1200


Dear members,

In case anyone needs more convincing of the hostile intent of our "guests"
from the registrar constituency, please note that Mr Crispin posted my
entire message to the dnso list, from where it went to the ifwp list and
was further embellished with sarcastic comment from Mr Crocker.

>In light of that statement, the attached message from Joop Teernstra
>on the idno list is most interesting. I note that both Dave Crocker
>and myself *are* individual domain name owners, and fully entitled,
>by any definition, to participate in the list. And I hardly need to
>point out that such behavior seriously undermines the credibility of
>the IDNO...hopefully Joop will realize that before too long.=20
>
>For reference, in case anyone needs to check, I have placed the
>relevant email messages at http://songbird.com/kent/idno (it isn't
>all that difficult to create an archive...)

For that kind of flagrant disregard for list-rules anyone will get kicked
off, not just from our list.
ISOC members may want to tell us how the ISOC list would deal with such
behaviour.

For those who need to be reminded,

1. this list is a volunteer effort by unpaid people. Please respect it. It
is the only resource for communication and organizing effort of the IDNO
constituency. Having a Domain Name does not give you a licence to disrupt
the efforts of other DN owners to organize.

2. this list is moderated. Such is announced on our webpage. The moderation
is intended to be light and tolerant, and it does not mean pre-vetting of
messages by the moderator(s). In cases of abuse, it can mean a call for
partial or total ostracism, delivered by democratic majority vote by the
IDNO members on this list.

3. Observe normal netiquette. This means: absolutely no reposting of
private messages. It also means: no reposting of list messages elsewhere
without permission of the author.

4. Try to avoid ad hominem arguments and refrain from insults. Insulting
people is a way of shutting them up.
If any listmember feels insulted by another listmember, the offended party
should complain to the listowner(s) , not to the list.
The listowner will then request the offender to apologize. Refusal to do so
will be dealt with by a vote of the IDNO members on the list.

5. Non-members are the guests of IDNO and should be especially sensitive to
the rules.

--Joop Teernstra LL.M.-- , bootstrap of
the Cyberspace Association,
the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
http://www.idno.org

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