On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Keith Davidson wrote:
I guess the issue relating to members vs public are:
1. That there needs to be a benefit for members, otherwise we wouldn't have any. That would mean that *everything* InternetNZ does would be funded by .nz nameholders (sticks chin out for Peter Mott's sake :-) ), and the Society *would* be run by an exclusive little group.
What is the benefit? Isn't the "Society" run by an exclusive little group already?
2. A seperate debate could occur as to whether or not reading endless tomes of data are in fact a "benefit"....
"Information is bad, especially for some people."
3. In the past, we have seen instances of the media picking up on topics being debated by InternetNZ members and claiming that these items are InternetNZ resolutions / policies or whatever. So I guess until some things sit comfortably with InternetNZ as a whole, they sometimes tend to remain available to members only.
Oh yes, blame the media for everything. Members only so much better, ya?
So its really not an issue of secret squirrel stuff, more a question of timliness. But I don't think any of this is a debate that should be occurring in this forum, it probably should return to its more technical fundaments, so I will butt out.
Not before you reveal your secret Internet handshake ;-P -- Regards, Juha C program run. C program crash. C programmer quit. - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog