Please get me off this list-please?
TNX
At 02:08 PM 07/28/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 12:54:32PM -0700, Bret Fausett wrote:
>> >> To the extent that the late registrations are coming predominately from
>> >> China (as I have seen reported) or non-English speaking and/or emerging
>> >> nations -- where information about ICANN may have been slow to reach
>> >> potential members -- these "random rejections" have a disproportionate
>> >> impact on these groups.
>>
>> > People who get news late will not be as well served as people who get
>> > news early. There is nothing, even in principle, that can be done about
>> > that -- the problem exists completely independent of the performance of
>> > the server. People who find out about the election after the election
>> > occurs won't be able to vote.
>>
>> I'm not at all concerned with protecting those who hear about ICANN after
>> the deadline expires or who try to register on August 1st. But if people
are
>> trying to register today, but cannot, there might be a couple of things to
>> do about that:
>>
>> (1) Allow potential members to e-mail their registration data to a mailbox
>> on another server, rather than requiring that they use the overloaded web
>> form.
>
>You just move the problem to those who don't hear about the email.
>Moreover, you open yourself to the challenge that you changed the rules
>midstream without adequate notice...
>
>> (2) Allow potential members to mail to ICANN, via postal mail, their
>> registration data, with a postmark or other 'proof' of mailing prior to the
>> deadline.
>
>Same problems as above; plus you have to hire staff to go through the
>letters and input the data. Data entry for another 100000 letters is a
>nontrivial job.
>
>> You'd have to move all deadlines back by 30 days, to allow mail to reach
>> Marina Del Rey and to process the e-mail registrations. But you would have
>> ensured that anyone who wanted to register had been able to do so.
>
>Nope. You wouldn't ensure any such thing. There are still all kinds of
>things that might go wrong, all kinds of reasons why letters might not
>get there -- eg, could be a postal strike in Marina del Rey.
>
>--
>Kent Crispin "Do good, and you'll be
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] lonesome." -- Mark Twain
>
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