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Dear Mr. Allisat:

That is quite a change in quality of posts, which I hope will remain so, 
whether you are selected as a TFN Board member or not, or your account is 
re-activated (or given a new one) by the coming board or not.

Now, there is a subtle difference between Community Network (which I 
believe is the major focus of the TFN and less of TFCN) and community 
access (which I believe is the major focus of TFCN and less of TFN, 
except for providing PUBLIC access terminals as opposed to INTEREST 
GROUPS approach of TFCN).

The role of a community network is mainly information of interest to all 
the community (which TFN is taking with a variable degree of success 
according to your point of view), but TFN may be added more burden to 
itself by also providing community access, whereas most community 
networks simply get a local ISP to donate space on its server and provide 
cheaper access to its user. Something TFN may have to seriously consider, 
if all other approaches to maintain current double responsibility.

In fact the mandate of TFN has to be crystallized and clearly defined 
(some suggestions are in my platform) and all other activities follow the 
identified mandate and/or mission statement.

In my opinion TFN should concentrate on the community network approach 
(which entails training of users and volunteers in effectively accessing 
sources of information particularly local ones, and thus contributing to 
the well-being of the community and developing the skills of the 
community members in areas of using the telecommunication revolution).

The above are just my humble opinion based on feedback from various 
mailing lists that address community networks and public access as well.

Sincerely,
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Nabil M. El-Khodari      It is too bad that some define "Democracy"
Info. Provider  TFN      as the freedom of the membership to elect     
Board Candidate          those they wish to "rule" them.