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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>That’s precisely what I mean. You
can’t just count comments, not all of them are perceived as equal by the
Commerce Dept. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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carlton.samuels@gmail.com [mailto:carlton.samuels@gmail.com] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Carlton Samuels<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, June 09, 2009 9:52
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> governance@lists.cpsr.org;
Milton L Mueller<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [governance] Summary
of IGP comments on the NTIA ICANN</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on"><font size=4 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Milton</span></font></st1:place></st1:City><font
size=4 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>:<br>
Depends on how you interpret the meaning of "statistics". As an
old <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:State>
hand, I happen to know that companies with paid lobbyists, PACs and deep
pockets tend to have multiplier effects in the Congress that pales the single
name identifier.<br>
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<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Carlton</st1:place></st1:City></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Milton L Mueller <<a
href="mailto:mueller@syr.edu">mueller@syr.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Statistics are meaningless here. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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