[H-GEN] IAMEMS: ICANN At Large Voter Registrations (fwd)

[Bruce Campbell]

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On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Raymond Smith wrote:

raymon> I too had a lot of difficulty registering. It definitely
raymon> gave me a bad impression. 'So this is the organisation
raymon> charged with looking after names and numbers ... and it
raymon> can't get a decent website going'.

Expectations for the number of voters were drastically exceeded.  Its the
equivilant of expecting 1,000 people to turn up to a Fun Run, and finding
that 10,000 turned up.

	Any system, no matter how well designed, will still have troubles
	when expectations are exceeded.

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