GEEZ!!! Can we just drop this whole thing already! He has been booted...leave it at that and go on!
-----Original Message----- From: nathan wainwright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 26, 2003 4:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: (clug-talk) Re: Garth Meisel haven't been to meetings in quite some time, and im guessing something bad happened? -- nathan 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----- > > > >
