-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello All,
I would like to apologize for last night. It seems that we attracted a raving madman and I'm not talking about S�bastien either <grin> Garth Meisel has been banned him from the mailing list. Jeff's firewall is also going to be banning all traffic from imagewireless.ca for the time being. I would like to publicly express my utter contempt of this person and what he did to Trevor Lauder and to a lesser degree Kevin Anderson. I feel that these two individuals are contributing members of CLUG who try to help out as much as they can. What Garth did last night was inexcusable and that was why he was removed. We are expecting some backlash from this and as such the CLUG site has been backed up. Please keep an eye on things and remove anything that appears to be defacement and/or let us know so that we can restore the site. Hopefully we can all breathe a little easier now. I am not na�ve enough to think that this problem will entirely disappear but we are treating things like this with due diligence. I think the next Executive should focus some efforts on the mailing list. I'm not sure what those efforts should be but we should take an audit of the system and see if there are things that could be changed for the better. At the very least a clear and concise usage agreement should be sent out periodically to remind people that things like what Garth did are not acceptable. I hope this does not put any of you off or make you go into "lurk mode" for fear of being attacked. I know that Trevor is considering removing himself from the list and I wouldn't blame him in the least. I have already told him that I would consider it a loss on CLUG's part. He assures me that if he did remove himself from the list it would not mean that he would stop attending CLUG meetings and such. I have lobbied for people to curb the tendency to attack or belittle and now I must congratulate you. Aside from Kevin whose reply was light-hearted considering his attack and Cade, nobody else rose to the bait. This shows a lot of self-control. Now maybe we can get back to business and take care of our own. Thank you for your patience. - -- Jarrod Major GPG Fingerprint: FA4A 1EA3 A0EE A842 07BB 804C 0090 14F6 BE6E DE3D CLUG Treasurer Registered Linux User: #224211 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBPluYQACQFPa+bt49AQLTwwQAiGh0W2MgEHVSMo0u2x/+/qSgM6hqC+kv 36Qcw42NCLFq1v8Bp+GXUnfX2hIpuJRU8AE8dk18HiSoK7VOh7OLIOwuIvzQ2zUZ penES1lQFkhsIoUxhe3/uH/MXKzaBUxYKcvbiSkAZfN/ETtDVQ3LV6q/beC8IYUi nNFSZRbGMiA= =EpP+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
