[AfrICANN-discuss] Is it relevant to know who is who on the AfrICANN list?

Sun Dec 30 21:32:10 UTC 2012

Great and Lerato Ma can choose who she wants on the list...

What's wrong with requiring not to use a sock puppet and not to lie?

And what is wrong with exposing this?

el

Sent from Dr Lisse's iPad mini

On Dec 30, 2012, at 23:18, Ben Akoh <me at benakoh.com> wrote:

> The following steps may be required to bring sanity to this list:
> 
> 1. Unsubscribe everyone. 
> 2. Create a list etiquette (etiquette should contain dos and don'ts, including respect for others. I can volunteer to develop this and anyone that may be interested in doing so. List purpose and goals that Adiel suggested should be reiterated). 
> 3. Create a new list with the same address. 
> 4. Send etiquette to emails harvested from step 1. 
> 6. Interested persons wanting to participate in wholesome, progressive discussions should subscribe to new list created in step 3. 
> 
> I have studied several platforms/strategies/processes for public policy dialogue that lead towards substantive policy change. Online discussions is one useful and effective but not the only way. A toolkit describing other ways can be downloaded from here: http://www.iisd.org/publications/pub.aspx?pno=1619
> 
> If your response to my comments above would not profit anyone else, please direct it at me only. Save Africa's meager bandwidth. 
> 
> Best wishes!
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 2012-12-30, at 2:50 PM, Adiel Akplogan <adiel at afrinic.net> wrote:
> 
>> Hello Pierre,
>> 
>> Allow me to make few comments on this poll. What is it purpose? 
>> Who is/is_not entitle to take the poll? How do you control that? 
>> For it to have the weight that you wish, it may has: 
>> 
>> 1 - not to be anonymous - this list being an open forum of 
>>     discussion created specially with that intend. People 
>>     expressing opinion on how the list must be run should 
>>     be known and be able to transparently display their views.
>> 2 - to be taken only by people who have been on the list and/or 
>>     active on it over the past minimum 2 years. (If I want the 
>>     result of the poll to go into a particular direction what 
>>     prevent me to request all my family, my dogs, my cats, 
>>     neighbours to take the poll and say what I want them to say?.
>> 
>> Trying to meet the above 2 points alone will make you quickly 
>> realise that the poll by itself is inappropriate to answer the 
>> question you are asking … 
>> 
>> On a more general note, has it happened to any of you who are 
>> vehemently questioning the expertise of people on the list and 
>> trowing stones all over to ask yourself what is the genesis of 
>> this list? What was it purpose and objective? Who came up with 
>> the idea and to achieve what? I think trying to understand that 
>> a lone would have cut 90% of this never-ending loop of the debate 
>> that is going on for a while now.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> - a.
>> On 2012-12-30, at 11:09 AM, Pierre Lotis NANKEP <lnankep at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>> 
>>> Poll on the question : Is it relevant to know who is who on the AfrICANN list?
>>> 
>>> Please click to express your own opinion... or http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SKFJXJN
>>> 
>>> Live result by December 30, 2012 (08:30 am GMT) :
>>> 
>>> Number of voters : 22 (+4)
>>> 
>>> Origin of voters :
>>> 1. Cameroon (41.202.205.250)
>>> 2. Gambia (212.60.65.174)
>>> 3. USA - New York - Holtsville (75.37.44.104)
>>> 4. Japan (115.162.51.10)
>>> 5. Malawi (41.78.59.20)
>>> 6. Comoros (197.255.232.2)
>>> 7. Kenya (197.176.11.64)
>>> 8. Mauritius (197.225.46.34)
>>> 9. United Kingdom (93.186.23.82)
>>> 10. South Africa (41.244.138.47)
>>> 11. Togo (41.207.184.25)
>>> 12. Cameroon (41.202.201.63)
>>> 13. United Kingdom (93.186.31.85)
>>> 14. Togo (41.207.171.105)
>>> 15. Germany (78.41.227.84)
>>> 16. Senegal (41.82.142.219)
>>> 17. Uganda (41.202.233.177)
>>> 18. Cameroon (195.24.206.125)
>>> 19. Nigeria (41.220.69.43) 
>>> 20. Mauritius (197.225.59.10) 
>>> 21. Switzerland (178.193.208.123)
>>> 22. Nigeria (41.71.162.180)
>>>   
>>> Please click to express your own opinion... or http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SKFJXJN
>>> 
>>> The vote will end by December 31, 2012, at 23H GMT. Only 2 days left.
>>> 
>>> Thanks to those who already voted... The results will be published on January 1rst, 2013.
>>> 
>>> Let us be guided by ethics...
>>> 
>>> Salam.
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