Ron,

Thanks for your pragmatic view of things.

The reason why I haven't sought your vote is because you're in Supply class and cannot vote for me as a Demand class candidate.

Option (3) is pretty much what I did with the aid of the public auDA member list (http://www.auda.org.au/about/members-list.html), my personal email contact list and Google.

There are also a number of Demand class members who I have spoken to face-to-face and on the telephone.  Which leaves a small number of Demand class members who I cannot find any contact details for at all (eg Warner Village Theme Parks).


Josh
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:48:28PM +1100, Ron Stark wrote:
> Let me address the issue of Josh's email from a different perspective.
> In order to solicit votes, Josh needed to present his credentials and
> position to all members who are entitled to vote.  He has some options:
> 
> 1  To make a public statement on this list, in which case he'd reach
> only part of his constituency
> 2  To mail each member individually, in which case he'd need access to
> all auda's private list of members, which I suspect would be improper.
> 3  To mail those members who are on his personal mail list, in an effort
> to be discreet
> 4  To do all of the above, which means that several members would have
> received multiple solicitations from Josh.
> 
> Because I never received such an email from Josh, I must asume that he
> mailed only members in his personal list, which to me is wholly
> appropriate, is not spam, and is a proper approach.  Would there have
> been howls of protest had he made such a solicitation in this forum?
> Perhaps, but then again perhaps not.
> 
> To have loudly protested here is, I think, petty, maybe even malicious.
> A mature response would have been to object to Josh personally, as was
> his original mail.
> 
> Ron Stark