Re: [ga] Re: [Monitor & Chair] Reminder and Final Warnings: Sims,Dierker, Field, Fleming

["Richard Henderson" <richardhenderson@ntlworld.com>]

Dear Professor Froomkin

That is decent and magnanimous. I'm willing to withdraw my request of
course - after all, you were the injured party.

There is a kind of "Last Days of Rome" atmosphere emanating from ICANN
recently, resembling a kind of hysterical paranoia or collective nervous
breakdown.

Following the "Auerbach debacle", the NewTLD fiascos, the DoC breathing down
their neck, the growth of the "real" At Large, the onward movement of the
ccTLDs, the critical noises from GAC at Budapest, the ITU offerings, the
whole Worldcom atmosphere (which let's face it, is pretty close to home) -
you can't help feeling they have a "Nobody Loves Us" mentality just now.

"Why doesn't anyone understand us?" they seem to be asking.

Alas - people understand them all too well (in growing numbers).

The bizarre Cohen/Sims messages create a truly "Alice in Cyberland"
atmosphere... and THIS is the way to administer a worldwide resource?

Richard Henderson
www.theInternetChallenge.com for news of the growing At Large movement, now
represented in 75 countries, and asking for ordinary users to be elected to
help administer the DNS and bring some balance to the ICANN Board


----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
To: Richard Henderson <richardhenderson@ntlworld.com>
Cc: <ga@dnso.org>
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 12:23 AM
Subject: Re: [ga] Re: [Monitor & Chair] Reminder and Final Warnings:
Sims,Dierker, Field, Fleming


> Dear Mr. Henderson,
>
> While I much appreciate the sentiments that I'm sure motivate your request
> quoted below, I appeal to you to withdraw it.  I have always opposed the
> content-based censorship of ICANN-related lists (although I've no
> objection to content-neutral volume or frequency limits), and the fact
> that I happen to be the target of someone's bile does not change my belief
> that censorship on lists relating to public policy-making is both a bad
> idea in principle (people should filter their own mail, not have it done
> for them) and in practice (lists that have censorship policies too often
> end up debating those policies rather than matters of substance).
>
> As to what to make of the actual give and take, I refer readers to Bret
> Fausett's comments at
> http://icann.blog.us/stories/2002/08/17/whoStoleIcannsStrawberries.html
>
> Best regards,
>
> Michael Froomkin
>
> On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Richard Henderson wrote:
>
> > In the absence of any apology to Michael Froomkin, and because there is
no
> > reassurance that Mr Sims will not repeat his unfounded slurs against
Michael
> > Froomkin's integrity and reputation, I formally request the moderators
to
> > bar this correspondent.
> >
> > Mr Sims has responded to your warning, not with a reassurance, but with
the
> > challenge: "Please, bar me from posting on this list."
> >
> > I formally request that you carry out his instructions, and that he is
not
> > re-admitted until he gives assurances that he will not again attack Mr
> > Froomkin's good name.
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Richard Henderson
> >
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