Good day all, chairs, I would like to call out a violation of the Code of Conduct by Ronald. His statements are clearly against section B, numbers 2, 3 and 4 within the AFRINIC code of conduct. His actions and statements are defamatory and quite offensive. Regards
On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 6:15 AM Ronald F. Guilmette <[email protected]> wrote: > In message <CANanHiw4sexT3NaogQahUedT4qg8x8N_i= > [email protected]> > Ibeanusi Elvis <[email protected]> wrote: > > >This "sockpuppet" ideology and terminology that has become an excessively > >overused irrelevant term in this mailing list. What is wrong with sharing > a > >link of interest or a link that a member consider relevant to him/herself. > >Freedom of expression is always promoted in this community as long as it > >does not go out of line. Members of this community including the AFRINIC > >organization itself always share updates and links; never have it been > >considered an act of being a "Sockpuppet". Lets stop throwing words around > >in this community mailing list and create unwanted confusion. > > Sockpuppetry is not an "ideology". It is a well-established fact of life > on the modern Internet, just as "astroturfing" is in real life. If you > don't know that then it is because either you are ignorant or else it is > because you are pretending to be ignorant. > > The poster in question is using and was using a fradulent name together > with > an essentially anonymous gmail account. The name given in the From: header > is bogus and is a reference to a non-existant fictitious person, as anyone > who simply takes a moment to google the name can readily see. > > This is fundamentally different from Real People posting to these lists. > Real People have histories, known connections, and readily identifiable > employers. Sock puppets have none of these things. > > If you don't like people talking about sock puppets on these mailing lists > then perhaps you should, in the first instance, try to get the sock > puppets to stop posting garbage and unenlightening recycled company PR > blurbs to these mailing lists. > > Most of us have real work to do, and if we really want to be bombarded by > commercial advertisments being written and spread around by specific > individual companies, at their request or prompting, and for their benefit, > then there are other places where we can seek out that kind of stuff. > > > Regards, > rfg > _______________________________________________ > apnic-talk mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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