[ga-abuse] Complaint Against Jim Fleming - Relevance of Posting

["Patrick Corliss" <patrick@quad.net.au>]

Hi Jim

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The GA rules are detailed at the following URL:
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/2000.GA-ga-rules-v0.4.html

They state, in part, that -
"The messages must be relevant to the business of the GA"

The wording of my complaint stated that the post had "nothing to do with the
DNS".  In accordance with the stated rules, my wording should have read that
it "was not relevant to the business of the GA".  I'm sure you understood
what I meant quite well.

The post in question was a spam email from a company promoting its website.
The mail said, amongst other things:

> I need some outside perspective on this site.  I need some outside
> perspective on this site, improvements, typos, better visuals.

From the sunsequent email, it became clear to me that your purpose in
posting this email was to bait William X. Walsh.   The fact that the spam
related to .BIZ was clearly incidental.

In any case, I have mentioned to you many times that your communication
style is appalling.  If you are trying to make a point with reference to
.BIZ perhaps you should state it more clearly.  I don't believe that was
your intention as later debate showed.

In fact the whole thread was a sham quite irrelevant to the content of the
post.

Under ICANN's Bylaws, the DNSO shall advise the Board with respect to policy
issues relating to the Domain Name System.  Your post was about a website
and only indirectly referenced .BIZ.  The only possible policy issue related
to the lottery.

However, I accept that the reference to .BIZ is sufficient grounds for
claiming that your post was relevant, albeit indirectly, to the business of
the General Assembly.

I will therefore withdraw my complaint in this case.  The other complaint
stands.

Regards
Patrick Corliss

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:41:56 -0500, Jim Fleming wrote:
> Please advise on how you conclude that .BIZ has "nothing to do with the
> DNS".

On Sat, 7 Jul 2001 18:47:34 -0500, Jim Fleming wrote:
Subject: [ga] Fw: [azipa] some help needed on dotbizlottery.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marlo Newman" <Marlo@infinetways.net>
To: "Azipa@Yahoogroups. Com" <azipa@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 6:20 PM
Subject: [azipa] some help needed on dotbizlottery.com

> Hi folks,
> On Monday or Tuesday we will go live with http://www.DotBizLottery.com
> I need some outside perspective on this site, improvements, typos, better
> visuals.

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