On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 21:26 -0400, Kevin Johnson wrote: > > First let me say thank you William for all that you have done for the > JaxLUG and you are right, it would not be where it is today without > your efforts. Of course I feel that I do have to point out that you > have reminded everyone of this in pretty much every email.
Clearly if there was more acknowledgment, then I would not feel the need to make it known. > William, while I understand the irritation you may feel, removing > someone from the list, even without banning them is childish and below > you. If you want to step down, then step down and shut up. You may think that, but it happens in many communities. I am sorry the JaxLUG does not have a code of conduct. But I can assure you other list admins would have done the exact same thing. You can see it as childish, but its the job of a good systems administrator to remove those who are not contributing constructively. If you feel otherwise that is your opinion. If you have been part of enough communities, you will see people getting removed and banned from lists. This happened to me and many others on Gentoo mailing and its part of why I left. In fact a temporary ban that was put into place on Gentoo against me remained for over 2yrs. Major mistakes were made all around. > But unsubscribing someone from a list that you have already > announced you were not going to deal with any more (I am ignoring that > you have continued to post after saying that no one should reply to > you as you were going to disappear basically.) I wish I could disappear. I could just shut things down and go away like other past admins did. At this time there is no one to take over the mailing list. I am forced to continue on. I can be silent yes, but I am still footing the bill for all this. Most of my breach of silence was to inform people of things for a smooth transition. Which it was requested of me that I oversee things. > could be construed as a malicious act and I could see a lawyer arguing > that it violated some law. (Of course this would be an extreme and I > would not agree with it.) Sorry but I could just as easily justify any actions being the current systems administrator. I do have responsibilities there, beyond just keeping things up and running. > All I can say is that I have lost what ever respect your running this > group has gained you for an act that served absolutely no purpose. Ok, good to know, thanks! > I hope that everyone just sits the heck down and we go back to being a > group about linux where people can disagree. Problem is these are not Linux topics, and the disagreements are not over technical matters or even Linux. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
