Re: [uug] Kick-banned / last request (fwd)

[Ross Werner]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Andrew McNabb wrote:

> In times past (since before I was a UUG officer--check the list archives
> for November 2003), this was the same action taken, and the reason is
> that people that write offensive emails tend to do it several times in a
> row.  We have to have a way to tell them to chill.

I also wanted to mention that the particular non-biblical four-letter-word
used in November 2003 and the context in which it was used is considerably
different from the three-letter-word and the context in which Halcrow used
it. While I support the action of "the previous administration", I think
that applying that precedent to the current incident is basically out of
line. I don't think Halcrow was on an anger spree, needing to be "told to
chill"--a simple warning would have sufficed to change his behavior.

  ~ Ross

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