<div dir="ltr"><div style>Hi all,</div><div><br></div>There certainly have been no such concerns expressed wrt *any* of the ALAC and At-Large lists, which are hosted by ICANN despite occasionally carrying the kind of content Alex describes.<div>
<br></div><div style>There are codes of conduct established by the associated entity, but beyond that no limits of which I'm aware. There may be good reasons to host the list outside ICANN, but content restriction isn't one of them.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>FWIW, the software and admin interface used by ICANN lists (well, all the ones I've worked with) are standard Mailman.</div><div style><br></div><div style>- Evan</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 February 2013 17:11, Alex Gakuru <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gakuru@gmail.com" target="_blank">gakuru@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Excuse me for jumping in while we wait for Robin to respond.<br><br>My understanding is that ICANN may/was/perceived not to tolerate of be most comfortable with very liberal civil society expression (citing MOPO or concern with lawsuits for hosting such content on their servers?) <br>
<br>I stand to be corrected<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Alain Berranger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alain.berranger@gmail.com" target="_blank">alain.berranger@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear Robin,<div><br></div><div>When you have a minute, can you please tell me why we have NCSG mailing lists on <a href="http://ipjustice.org" target="_blank">ipjustice.org</a> and <a href="http://syr.edu" target="_blank">syr.edu</a> servers and not on ICANN servers? I am being asked by new NPOC colleagues and I do not know the answer.</div>
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