[governance] New membership database: choose your own username

[Deirdre Williams]

On 4 January 2011 02:47, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:

> On 04/01/2011, at 2:28 PM, Avri Doria wrote:
>
>
> > And with the way you are terming those who participate in the list
> passively as lurkers
>
> That is a value-neutral term, as far as I use it.  But I've apologised if
> anyone was offended by use of that term.
>

"We are doing this because, until now, there has been no proper IGC
membership list, other than the list of subscribers to the governance
mailing list (which contains many non-member lurkers, duplicate
subscriptions and some defunct accounts)."

The intention of my comment at least was not that I found the term itself
offensive, but that in the context that was used (see above) the suggestion
appeared to be that "lurkers" were undesirable and should be removed from
the list of subscribers - since they were included in a list with "duplicate
subscriptions" and "defunct accounts". Also that "lurkers", by definition,
were not members. Since these views seem to disagree fundamentally with my
understanding of the way the Internet Governance Caucus is supposed to work
I felt that it was necessary to challenge them.
I apologise in turn if I misunderstood your intention. :-)

Deirdre

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