RE: Pawlo last word (was:Re: [ga] Enough private replies...)

["William X. Walsh" <william@dso.net>]

On 20-Dec-1999 Mikael Pawlo wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
>> >And ICANN must be the most interesque forum
>> >online.
>> is this a contraction of "interesting" and "burlesque"?
>> If so - great word!
> 
> Hahaha - thanks for providing a great laugh this morning.
> 
> It's a typing error - should've been "internetesque", which of course is
> another non-existent word. My point: it's not good if the Internet
> regulatory body - which ICANN is - doesn't behave in an Internet manner.
> 
> My final remarks on the matter:
> I'm the first to join the views expressed in my inbox this morning,
> Baptista is disrupting the process, he's annoying and offensive. I don't
> like him. However, this is not enough to keep him from working with - or
> against - the ICANN movement at the open lists.

In any public forum, abuse and disruption of the forum is grounds for being
denied access to the forum.  Go into the US House of Representatives and start
screaming about whatever cause you are advocating, and watch how quickly you
are removed and not permitted return access.  Same with your local City
Council, or any other public forum.  

Certainly there are rights, but when in exercising those rights, you deprive
others of that right by making the forum useless and disrupted, you lose the
forfeit the protection of that right.

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