FC: Verisign abruptly closes popular domain name discussion list

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[Brian, will Verisign make the archives available temporarily via FTP, for 
instance, so the contents won't be swept away forever? --Declan]

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Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 18:42:07 +0200
From: Alexander Svensson <svensson () icannchannel de>
To: declan () well com
Subject: VeriSign closes discussion list


Hi Declan!

VeriSign has closed down the long-running 'domain-policy'
discussion list. Even the archives seem to be gone,
before anyone could save them.
  http://lists.netsol.com/archives/domain-policy.html

Bret Faussett and Michael Froomkin have good comments
on this awkward way of closing a mailing list:
  http://www.lextext.com/icann/index.html and
  http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=173&mode=&order=0

Best regards,
/// Alexander

----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Newell <tomn () LISTS NETSOL COM>
To: <DOMAIN-POLICY () LISTS NETSOL COM>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 1:09 AM
Subject: List deactivation


> This list will be closed effective immediately.  When
> we started the list many years ago, there were no lists
> specifically focusing on domain policy issues.  Today
> there are a wide range of public lists that address
> this topic.
>
> Thank you very much for your participation.
>
> Please refer all queries to Brian O'Shaughnessy, of
> VeriSign's Corporate Communications department at
> boshaughnessy () verisign com.
>
>
> --Tom




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