Yes, I was in error joining in on any of this. I apologize to the list and to Kevin Anderson. Any future posts from myself will be of a helpful nature.
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Jarrod Major wrote: > -----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----- >
