At 10:03 AM -0400 9/8/04, Frannie Wellings wrote: >Hey there Adam and all - > >> >From: Adam Peake <[log in to unmask]> > >>I just thought you might have shown you'd taken things a little more >>seriously. It's an IM session, I'm not talking about emoticons and >>stuff, but some serious discussion, and there's not a lot of that. > > >I take full responsibility for the emoticon madness and any silliness >in the chat. No... emoticons are part of what chat is about. No problem with that. Thanks, Adam > I would like to point out in our defense, however, that >we were waiting to see if other members would join and were stalling >a bit throughout with the hope that they would. The three of us >really wanted to hear from the others regarding their thoughts on the >names - they weren't able to join and we've had to hear from them >over e-mail. I think we did have the necessary conversations about >the process and the names; some of the pieces you see as missing were >covered by the descriptions when the names were submitted to the NCUC >discuss list. > >Anyway, hope this clears things up a bit. We weren't trying to make >light of the process - we were taking the decisions seriously, only >trying not to get frustrated with the hour + that we sat there >waiting hopefully and getting kicked off MSN. :) > >>Anyway, the people on the list are good. I have reservations about >>Karl (stated) but most people disagree with me. Fine, he should stay >>on the list. > >I'm glad you're happy with the rest of the names. :) > >Best, F > > >-- > >~~~ >Frannie Wellings >Policy Fellow, the Electronic Privacy Information Center ~ >http://www.epic.org >Director, The Public Voice ~ http://www.thepublicvoice.org > >1718 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 200 >Washington, D.C. 20009 >USA > >[log in to unmask] > >+1 202 483 1140 x 107 (telephone) >+1 202 483 1248 (fax) >~~~