Painful, but necessary.
In my culture, when you rent an apartment, you do not wake up each
morning to insult your landlord.
The last time I tried to correct him on the use of a "tar brush" on
anyone and anything when he writes, he condescended to attacking my
faith. I thereafter chose to ignore him, as the faith I profess (indeed
anyone's faith) is not important to the issues being discussed.
We should not be too dull, not to know how to keep intellectual bullies
at bay.
Thank you for taking some action, and I urge the community to accept
plenty of help, but with some level of dignity.
Sunday.
On 2/23/21 7:51 PM, AFRINIC Communication wrote:
Dear AFRINIC community members,
Mr. Ronald Guilmette has repeatedly violated the code of conduct of the AFRINIC
community mailing list despite being notified of this on several occasions
including the following:
On the 31st of August 2020, AFRINIC’s CEO filed a complaint against Mr.
Guilmette due to the violation of Code of Conduct on the Community mailing list
to the Governance Committee (Gov Com)
https://afrinic.net/ast/gc2020-04-violation-code-of-conduct.pdf
The complaint was later referenced in the blogpost AFRINIC published on the code of conduct: safeguarding the processes that built the Internet.
https://afrinic.net/20200903-code-of-conduct
As a result, Mr. Guilmette was officially notified by the Gov Com of the
investigation of a possible breach of the AFRINIC code of conduct to which he
offered the following response.
https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2020-October/003717.html
We have not taken action against Mr. Guilmette till now as we are still waiting for the result of the above investigation.
However, due to the repeated personal attacks that Mr. Guilmette launches
against others that may or may not be subscribed to the list, in addition to
the statements, in his last email, pertaining explicitly to the Supreme Court
of Mauritius that could expose him to legal actions for an offence known as
‘’Scandalising the Court’’ and that may jeopardise AFRINIC’s position in front
of the Mauritian court.
In light of the above AFRINIC has taken action in this matter to preserve the
open and inclusive nature that this community is founded upon.
Mr. Guilmette’s posts to the community mailing list will be subject to
moderation for a period of 30 days effective immediately as of 23 February 2021.
This means:
• Mr. Guilmette will continue to receive emails as the rest of the
mailing list subscribers.
• Mr. Guilmette’s emails to the list will be subjected to approval from
the mailing list moderator to guarantee that his posts are in line with the
Code of Conduct.
• In case the moderator finds the content of the email in breach the
email will be dropped and will not be forwarded to the list, otherwise Mr.
Guilmette’s email will go through after review.
• Finally Mr. Guilmette’s last post will be removed from the mailing
list archives.
We rely on our community’s usual collaboration to create a healthy space for
discussion where we can trust each other and hope you will endeavour to
continue to promote meaningful interactions on this mailing list in line with
our code of conduct in place.
Regards,
AFRINIC Communications & PR Team.
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