xBiz forum "jam packed" -NOT

["Burr, Becky" <Becky.Burr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Some webmasters have described the .xxx forum at the xBiz show in California as 
a "jam-packed . . . . near capacity crowd" of adult webmasters opposed to the 
.xxx domain.  J.D. Obenberger apparently conveyed this false assessment 
directly to Dr. Cerf just before the 12 February meeting.  ICANN (16 Feb. 
2007),  <http://forum.icann.org/lists/xxx-icm-agreement/msg00933.html> 
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  Nothing could be farther from the truth.  

 

In fact, even the opponents themselves have admitted that the "crowd" consisted 
of only "several hundred" webmasters-as compared to the nearly 1000 webmasters 
who, according to the organizers, attended the conference.  "baddog" repeated 
some, but not all of this information, on the ICANN forum.  baddog, opposition 
to .xxx and an open letter to Stuart Lawley, [xxx-icm-agreement], ICANN (9 Feb. 
2007), http://forum.icann.org/lists/xxx-icm-agreement/msg00648.html.  

 

As one opponent of .xxx stated:  "I was pretty disappointed at the turn out.  
The 2257 seminar was standing room only, and the .xxx seminar allowed us to 
stretch out and do jumping jacks without bothering anyone else."  Dot-XXX 
Seminar Raises Ire of Opposing Webmasters, comment of baddog (7 Feb. 2007, 
11:40 pm) http://www.gfy.com/showthread.php?p=11880361  
<http://www.gfy.com/showthread.php?p=11880361#post11880361> - post11880361.  

 

The photograph below (from fubarmasters.com site) tells the real story.

 

 

 

   



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