<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; "><div><div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Sophia/Lerato,</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">I know you have freedom of choice to decide under what name/ID you post , butfind it very interesting that you can feel hatred when it's your DCA which has run much publicized, unfounded campaigns against a number of people, no less some of those in this list. </div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br></div><div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Regards,</font></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Vika</font></font></div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Lerato <<a href="mailto:lerato.ma@yahoo.com">lerato.ma@yahoo.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span> Lerato <<a href="mailto:lerato.ma@yahoo.com">lerato.ma@yahoo.com</a>>, <<a href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net">africann@afrinic.net</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Tuesday 04 December 2012 9:13 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> "<a href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net">africann@afrinic.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net">africann@afrinic.net</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] The Google campaign – An ITU view<br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><blockquote style="border: none; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; padding: 0px;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 13px;">Now, personally, I don't give a single strigine screech let alone two.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 13px;">I tend to make judgments based on content rather than authorship.</span></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; padding: 0px;"><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">If so why did you not leave the issue alone except to try to blow this out of proportion, because I </span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">am defending DCA's position which is running for a .africa gTLD. </span></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">I have not seen anyone's email header being checked before. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">I have no clue half the time who most of the people are on this list or even </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">claim</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> to know them and I do not care. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">If the content is what should be important for you, I suggest you need to stick to that. </span></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span>Nonetheless, here is a response I have given to Kevin Murphy of Domainincite, which am sure you have contacted to create your useless controversy and should satisfy your </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent;">curiosity</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> and for those concerned on this list.</span><br></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; padding: 0px;"><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 13px;"><div style="background-color: transparent;"><div style="font-size: 13.600000381469727px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Hi Kavin</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.600000381469727px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Thanks for the message.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.600000381469727px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span>This is not a big deal. However, th</span><span style="background-color: transparent;">ey are trying to blow
it out of proportion and create a huge controversy out of it. </span></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.600000381469727px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Even authors write books under </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">Pseudo</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> name. </span></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.600000381469727px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.600000381469727px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">The name Sophia Bekele seem to </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">agitation</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> them on the list and get them in Frenzy. </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">They have even blocked "Sophia Bekele" ID on the list in the past and did not allow me to</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> post, which was only resolved by someone's intervention </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">This is a well known fact on the list and they claimed technical problems on their side. </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">T</span><span style="background-color: transparent;">his is because they did not consider me part of their community. </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">The open display of </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">hatred</span><span style="background-color: transparent;">, aggression and personal </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">anonymity</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> towards my person and DCA is </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">compelling me to post under Lerato Ma. </span></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.600000381469727px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.600000381469727px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">There is nothing to hide, it is just </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">to protect myself from all that </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">aggression. </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">It is not an </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">important</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> issues for
us</span>.</span></div></div></span></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; padding: 0px;"><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.600000381469727px; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"> --:Lerato Ma</span><br></div></span></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><blockquote style="border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Nigel Roberts <<a href="mailto:nigel@channelisles.net">nigel@channelisles.net</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net">africann@afrinic.net</a> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, December 4, 2012 5:51 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] The Google campaign – An ITU view<br> </font> </div> <br>
Dear "Lerato"<br><br>I'm puzzled again.<br><br>There's been a suggestion by Brian that seems to me to imply that you are a pseudonym for Sophia Beleke. I don't see where you've answered Brian's question in that regard.<br><br>Now, personally, I don't give a single strigine screech let alone two.<br>I tend to make judgments based on content rather than authorship.<br><br>But on an ICANN-related list its only common courtesy and surely in line with the Expected Standards of Behaviour to know for sure who one is corresponding with.<br><br>So a direct question for you, if I may?. Could you please post a brief biography for my benefit, please?<br><br><br><br><br>Nigel Roberts<br>Director, CI Domain Registry Ltd<br>(TLD technical and administrative services)<br>_______________________________________________<br>AfrICANN mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:AfrICANN@afrinic.net" href="mailto:AfrICANN@afrinic.net">AfrICANN@afrinic.net</a><br><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann" target="_blank">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann</a><br><br><br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></div></div>_______________________________________________
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