Hi Michael,

Yes you are right...this kind of use of the list is a waste of ICANN resources in general and NCSG list should be kept for ICANN business. Thanks Brenden for your practical suggestions.

Alain

On Tuesday, July 3, 2012, Brenden Kuerbis wrote:

Hello Michael,

It is your prerogative to unsubscribe from the NCSG-Discuss list.  However, may I offer a couple less drastic alternatives?  (These suggestions may come in handy for others, so I'm cc'ing the list)

1. Set your subscription to digest. 

With a "digest" subscription, you receive larger messages (called "digests") at regular intervals, usually once per day or once per week. These "digests" are collections of individual list postings.  Digests are a good compromise between reading everything as it is posted and feeling like the list is clogging your mailbox with a multitude of individual postings.

2. Set your subscription to index.

With an "index" subscription, you receive short "index" messages at regular intervals, usually once per day or once per week. These "indexes" show you what is being discussed on the list, without including the text of the individual postings. For each posting, the date, the author's name and address, the subject of the message, and the number of lines is listed. You can then download messages of interest from the server (the index contains instructions on how to do that). An index subscription is ideal if you have a slow connection and only read a few hand-picked messages. The indexes are very short and you do not have to worry about long download times. The drawback of course is that you need to reconnect to retrieve messages of interest from the server

3. Set your subscription to nomail. 

This option toggles off the receipt of mail from the list.  However, you will still be able to post to the list. You may want to disable mail delivery if you will be away from your mail for an extended period of time.

4. Configure your own email client to automatically kill/filter mail received from the list.

This option is the most customizable.  E.g., you could filter all mail from a specific individual, or mail which contains specific words (e.g., knitters).


If you have further questions, please contact me off list.  All of the list options above can be managed by the subscriber in the Subscribers Corner (look for the "Subscribe or Unsubscribe" link) at https://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=NCSG-DISCUSS  If none of these options work, I'm happy to unsubscribe you (or you can do this yourself).

Regards,

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Brenden Kuerbis
Internet Governance Project
http://internetgovernance.org

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Michael Carson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hello,

Whoever is in charge of adding/removing email addresses to this listserv, I am requesting that my email address be removed.

This sort of exchange is fruitless, a waste of time and unprofessional.  This is not the first time I have received these types of email exchanges.

Again, please remove my email address.

Regards,

Michael Carson

YMCA of the USA

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From: "Ginger Paque" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tuesday, July 3, 2012 9:28:38 AM
Subject: Re: knitters needle

I have never had my knitting needles taken from me on a flight. I do use circular needles, to avoid poking my seatmates, but have never had the needles questioned except by other envious knitters who come up to me and say: What??? We can carry our knitting needles on the plane?

I think a knit in is a spectacular idea. I will have a project with me in Baku, and can bring extra needles and yarn for those who want to learn to knit :)

Cheers, Ginger
Ginger (Virginia) Paque

[log in to unmask]
Diplo Foundation
Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme
www.diplomacy.edu/ig

On 3 July 2012 09:48, Andrew A. Adams <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

William Drake suggested:
> When the IOC folks were speaking in Prague it'd have been great if a
> bunch of people could have pulled out knitting needles…maybe Toronto?
> Some street theatre is always good for a meeting…

Nice idea. You'd have to find a local supply (or have someone bring hold
baggage to bring in a bunch) though, since AFAIK knitting needles are amongst
the terrible deadly weapons currently banned from being taken onto planes in
the war on tourism. ICANN meetings are short enough that lots of attendees
may well be flying hand luggage only (I know I would be).


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