Kent,
I know at least three people personally who unsubscribed from the list
after having been subscribed. They all said that they couldn't handle the
mail volume.
My feeling is that (1) we should have a digest option for the list (2) we
should have other options, such as threaded, web-based message groups as
Peter Mott suggest, and (3) that those who do unsubscribe are given clear
instructions on how to resubscribe.
This last has never been done. I wouldn't know how to resubscribe if I
were unsubscribed. Perhaps some of you recall Alan Sullivan's very long
saga trying to get subscribed to the list.
It's one thing to say that people who don't want to participate shouldn't
get to vote, and that's certainly an arguable proposition.
It's quite another to shut out people who may want to participate, but
can't figure out how to do so. I'm afraid that this might be the case now,
and I'm afraid that if it is, it might be used at a later date to call into
question the legitimacy of the elections.
That is my only concern.
Antony
At 02:23 PM 12/4/97 -0800, Kent Crispin wrote:
>Going back to Antony's original message on this topic:
>
>On Wed, Dec 03, 1997 at 05:40:41PM -0500, Antony Van Couvering wrote:
>> Dear PAB Members,
>>
>> It is with extreme regret that I announce that there will be an unavoidable
>> delay with the PAB Elections. It appears that there is confusion at the
>> ITU concerning how to get people on and off the list. One cannot subscribe
>> or unsubscribe automatically: the list is moderated, and someone has to
>> approve all such requests.
>>
>> Why does this matter? I have been bugging Robert Shaw for a while now
>> about a list of all PAB members. Many of them have been unsubscribed due
>> to the volume generated by this list.
>
>This is the part I don't understand. How were they unsubscribed? Did
>they voluntarily unsubscribe? Did they request to be resubscribed when
>something important came up?
>
>> But they *are* PAB members, and they
>> should be informed that there is an election coming up. As a body I think
>> we agreed on that point.
>
>I don't recall this question ever coming up. As I recall, the concern
>was about people who had not been on the list at all, because they had
>never been added, but who had expressed an interest in being on PAB.
>People who voluntarily unsubscribe are, in my opinion, a totally
>different issue. From my perspective, removing yourself from the list
>is the same as resigning from PAB. I think any gtld-mou signatory
>should have the option of leaving PAB at any time, and of joining at
>any time, but WITHOUT OTHER ARRANGEMENTS, voluntarily unsubscribing
>for the list should require voluntary resubscribing.
>
>Of course, this all depends on what they told the list moderator when
>they requested to unsubscribe.
>
>> I have the list, I can send them all an email personally to inform them of
>> coming elections, but at present I cannot get an answer about how they can
>> subscribe to the list again for the purposes of voting.
>
>How many people are there who were subscribed, but requested to be
>unsubscribed?
>
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