> On May 30, 2017, at 5:17 PM, Mirriam <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Owen
> 
> Iam not suprised that you are defending someone who could not even first go 
> to oroffesor Nii to apologize in person but choose to use the mailing list.

I am surprised that you are considering my email below to be a defense of 
anyone.

I am going to presume that you are, instead, replying to a different email in 
which I did NOT defend Andrew’s actions, but did state my opinion of Andrew’s 
character.

> A sigh that he does not even mean what he wrote herein. He respects no one.

We can agree to disagree.

> Andrew can continue his service to rhe community but far away from the 
> Afrinic board which he has disgraced time after time.

It is my opinion that would be the board and the community’s loss. Again, we 
can agree to disagree.

Owen

> 
> Mirriam
> 
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> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Owen DeLong
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> I strongly support Alan’s position. (Sent deliberately to the list using 
> reply-all).
> 
> Owen
> 
> > On Sep 30, 2016, at 6:26 PM, Alan Barrett <[email protected] 
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> > 
> > On 30 Sep 2016, at 16:55, Seun Ojedeji <[email protected] 
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >> On 30 Sep 2016 13:25, "Alan Barrett" <[email protected] 
> >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >>> and I have asked for the mailing list configuration to be changed so that 
> >>> it does not automatically add a “Reply-To” header in future.
> >> SO: I will suggest not to modify the list settings. Most of the time 
> >> people hit reply and their mails goes as PM. I think it's absolutely fine 
> >> for a community list like this to have a default response to the 
> >> community. One can always do a formal withdrawal OR be mindful of who 
> >> he/she is replying to before hitting the send button.
> > 
> > There is no good answer, but I seek to minimise the harm done by mistakes.
> > 
> > If the list does not add a reply-to address then there are two kind of 
> > mistakes, neither of them very serious:
> > 1. Things that were intended as list replies are accidentally sent as 
> > personal replies.  trivial problem; they can be re-sent.
> > 2. Things intended as list replies accidentally accumulate a long list of 
> > cc: addresses.  Minor problem; the people in the CC list get multiple 
> > copies of messages.
> > 
> > If the list does add a reply-to address, then there is one kind of very 
> > serous mistake:
> > 3. Things that were intended as personal replies accidentally get sent to 
> > the list.  This is potentially a huge problem, as confidential information 
> > can be made public.
> > 
> > Therefore, to minimise the harm done by mistakes, the list should not add a 
> > reply-to address to messages.
> > 
> > I realise that this is debatable, but that’s my position.
> > 
> > Alan Barrett
> > 
> > 
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