Skeeve,

Not only did you ignore the STOP THREAD but your language is obviously not 
acceptable for this mailing list.  Your access is now being moderated and all 
future posts will need to be approved.



David - on behalf of the moderators.
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On 9 Oct 2018, at 12:22 pm, Skeeve Stevens 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
 wrote:

Not what I said Mark.

I respect you, but if you can't see what I said, go fuck yourself. Seriously.

...Skeeve

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On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 9:23 AM Mark Newton 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
So the message here is that we should go easy on sexual harassment at AusNOG 
events because you did alright out of it.

Loud and clear.

    - mark

--
Tiny screen, imaginary keyboard.


On 9 Oct 2018, at 08:31, Skeeve Stevens 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
 wrote:

I hate to do this. I'm going to contradict my previous post about this not 
being the forum for such discussions.

This post is not to start another thread war, so if you want to abuse or say 
something else to me, please do it off-list.

I've been catching up on the posts re Sexual Harassment in our industry. I 
didn't read all of them, there were just too many. So I don't know if this 
perspective was addressed.

Firstly, I will state categorically that Sexual Harassment is wrong. SEXUAL 
HARASSMENT is wrong. Flirting or saying hi to a cute girl (or guy) is not wrong.

I hate seeing people go politically correct mad and destroying perfectly good 
situations because of a few idiots who should be punished. That said, the 
incident should be looked into to make sure facts/accusations are accurate, as 
a misunderstanding or wrong accusation can easily destroy someone as badly as 
being actually sexually harassed. Bevan was right to make the announcement, and 
right to send the warning of what would occur next time.

But we need to make sure our industry doesn't have all the fun and opportunity 
to meet new people squeezed out of it. I'd hate to see events where people are 
afraid to even say hi to someone they fancy (damn I'm old) due to incidents 
such as these.

I say this because I have a different experience than most people here in that 
I met my wife at an Ausnog event.

It was an industry drinks (pre-conference I believe for Ausnog #2)... there was 
a cute girl named Shanti (white) and her friend Lynette (Sri Lankan) which I 
found highly amusing based on their names. We had lots of fun with that and 
there was much flirting to be had.  I wasn't too naughty (based on the result), 
but I do recall my staff carrying me out of that event due to way too much 
alcohol.

It turns out Shanti was the one managing the event on loan from Vocus. As a 
sponsor of Ausnog #2, I had some interactions with Shanti the following few 
days (my staff were previously doing it - but I was smitten), and during the 
actual conference spent most of the time outside doing more flirting with this 
amazingly cute girl who for some reason was giving me the time of day.

I don't recall any of that event really except Vijay Gill being awesome and 
Geoff Huston doing his thing. Apart from that... no idea.. I was a little 
smitten.

A few days later I headed to Christchurch for my first APNIC event (#26) on 
James Spenceleys recommendation and by some stroke of luck (for me), James 
brought along Shanti too.  Well, that was that. It was my first APNIC, and 
James asked Shanti to 'keep me amused' [it was all his fault!!] as we were 
obviously getting on well. Well, that was the end of that.

10 years later, and recently having our 7th Wedding anniversary, and being the 
happiest husband ever that I met and fell for one of the very few women at the 
AusNOG conference.

So. Sexual Harassment is bad bad bad... and anyone who does anyone that is not 
welcome should be taken care of harshly. But, trying to meet people, is not a 
bad thing, and as long as people are respectful, people should continue to 
continue to have fun at these events and not be scared of meeting new people, 
for whatever reasons.

...Skeeve

Skeeve Stevens - Founder & Chief Architect - eintellego Networks Pty Ltd
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ; 
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