Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 14:48:23 04/11/00
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On April 11, 2000 at 17:30:10, Bertil Eklund wrote: >On April 11, 2000 at 14:00:13, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>On April 11, 2000 at 09:54:00, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>>>Not a problem. Didn't vote for you this time. Thought you were too young >>>>>and hot-headed to be a moderator. Nothing has changed that opinion yet... >>>>You seem to be ignoring the fact that moderation is a team effort here. >>>No I'm not. When a police officer sees something obviously illegal under >>>way, he takes care of it first, and then asks questions to see if his initial >> >>You're still absolutely ignoring the fact that it wasn't "obviously illegal." >> >>NOBODY (except you, of course) thought it was obviously illegal. Everybody >>thought RR = Ossi. >> >>Your pathetic explanation for why it's obviously illegal is that Ossi would have >>said, "Here's an e-mail I wrote..." >> >>I've already explained why this is silly. But think about it another way. When >>you write a post here, do you precede it with, "Here's a post I'm writing..."? >>No, obviously not. You hope that the reader will see your name at the top and at >>the bottom and can make the assumption that YOU wrote the post. What's different >>in the RR situation? You see Ossi's name at the bottom and a fake name at the >>top. What's to imply that Ossi isn't using the fake name? Now, I assume you >>don't speak German and you might not recognize the name as fake; this makes my >>judgement (although eventually proven wrong) better than yours in this case. >> >>Here's another thing to think about. When you quote a message on CCC, doesn't it >>get preceded with "On ... Tom Kerrigan wrote:" so as to save you some typing? If >>you quote something, the obvious course of action is to attribute the quote. >>This wasn't done in RR's post. >> >>Now, if you can think of some OTHER reason why RR's post was "obviously >>illegal," I'm sure everybody would like to hear it. >> >>With regard to the name calling, I'm thinking of something you said: >> >>>>>Not a problem. Didn't vote for you this time. Thought you were too young >>>>>and hot-headed to be a moderator. Nothing has changed that opinion yet... >> >>I assumed that you meant my handling of this situation was immature and >>hot-headed. But if you just wanted to call me names, fine. >> >>-Tom >Hi! > >I believe it's legal to post this letter at least in Sweden and Europe. >1. It's not a private e-mail it's from a company >2.Threats against an organisation >3.Threats against a private person. >4. Accusations against another company, of course this company could take legal >actions against this letter. > >Note I haven't published the letter. > >Bertil Thanks for the input. If the issue comes up again, I'm sure the moderators will try to take all of this into consideration. Although it will certainly be difficult... law is hard enough when you're only dealing with one country. -Tom
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