> What I believe is not his privilege is to misuse his administrative > privileges to the TriLUG servers to also get the channel bot to ignore my > requests for the services it provides.
I believe it is in my pervue to place a ban on resources to those I feel are abusing them. In this case, the ban was temporary. I did this with the full knowledge of at least one member of the sitting SC.
The channel bot is not a right, but a privilege. If its (ab)use is noticed by a person of administrative credentials and restrictive action is taken, it is done for the protection and courtesy of other users in channel. I do not have a problem with this. If it is done as the result of a vendetta, then it is a different matter and the SC would deal with this in private.
> ...Mr. Otte gave the beauracratic response along the > lines of "I am the system administrator. If you don't like it, take it up > with the system administrator."
This was a procedural response and it was the correct one. As a matter of course, I don't believe any censure of Mr Otte is necessary. The alleged "misuse of administrative privileges" has been reversed. However, in order to create a precedent, I would ask that all former SC members with administrative credentials inform the SC before taking similar action. This is a matter of courtesy. Mr Otte seems to have fulfilled this request. Matt Frye SysAdmin, Steering Committee -- ___________________________________ OpenBBQ-OpenJam - A celebration of food, music, and good times. June 17, 2006 at Rub's Smokehouse, Morrisville, NC Details at www.oBoJ.org -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
