Hi Matt,
Thank you for your kind message.
I have now had a number of emails along the same lines as yours.
I have sent the same comments to those people as I'm sending to you, see
between the lines...
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Trust me when I say it's just not worth bringing down your day over...
I will say thou, that it was not the views, or even the tone, or even
the threats that were the issue...
It was the use of constant offensive language, hate and anger.
I didn't go into it on list, because I didn't feel it was appropriate.
I have see this kind of communication before from people.
In one case (unrelated project in Australia) I found out later that the
sender was drunk when they wrote what they wrote. I've also known
people on lists to be unwell.
I know from personal experience that if you're not well then it's not
helpful to have people take you to task on your views... in this case I
have no real idea about the health or other wise of the other party so
I'm just going to back away from the whole project.
I also found the SFD site offensive. The fact that the project
stakeholders don't care enough to respond to offers of help makes a
complete mockery of the project.
Very sad really because I could see something of value to the community
coming from it but the lack of support combined with offensive
communications makes it something I'm staying away from.
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Matt it is great to hear that the forums are being cleaned up. As they
stand currently they wouldn't make it thru a half decent content filter
and that really makes a mockery of the entire project.
It has been made clear to me that it is not my place to advise your
orginisation and that from New Zealand there are appropriate channels
and ways for making contact.
Frankly I found this to be contrary to policies published on the SFD web
site and any associated wiki sites that I found.
As you can see from my site at www.tcn.bowenvale.co.nz, I have enough
projects on the go at present to not waste my time on projects that
leave my wife feeling angry and upset.
Again, I wish you and your team the best.
Cheer Don
Matt Oquist wrote:
Hi Don,
I'm sorry to hear that you've had such a rough experience trying to
become involved with SFD. We're finally cleaning up the forums (new
forums went up today), so at least that problem should be greatly
lessened.
If you wouldn't mind, could you let us know who was sending you
abusive emails? You could forward the mails to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (that goes to the board of directors) or
to myself personally, if you prefer. We certainly have no intention of
harboring abuse within the SFD community, and you can help us by
letting us know where the friction occurred.
Thanks for your work on the mind map, and I hope that we can clear up
what went wrong and work together on SFD again.
Regards,
Matt Oquist
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:53:53 -0400
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Info] Forward of moderated message
From: Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:02:31 +1200
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected],
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Rik Tindall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Joanna Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SFD Mind map update and Support...
Afternoon All,
You will find that there is a new update to the mind map I published
last week here:
http://www.tcn.bowenvale.co.nz/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,16/
This will be the last update I will be providing and I withdraw my
support from this project.
In the past 72 hours I have found that there is much religious debate
over these issues.
I have been threatened over issues pertaining to this project by members
of the community.
I have also done quite a bit more research into the project and found
that stake holders in the project aren't interested in the views of
members of the global community.
See:
http://www.sf-day.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=119
http://www.sf-day.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=130
http://www.sf-day.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=124
Additionally I sent a number of emails and have received no response.
Personally I am feeling quite shaken at present as I write this due to
messages that have been left for me on my answering machine.
I have received no less than 3 abusive emails with demands to change my
views or face concequences.
I wish those with interest in SFD luck with promoting their said cause
in the global community.
Cheers Don
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Don Gould
www.thinkdesignprint.co.nz - www.tcn.bowenvale.co.nz -
www.bowenvale.co.nz - SkypeMe: ThinkDesignPrint
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