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Subject: Moderation: Warning to all!!

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 10:57:50 01/01/02

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On January 01, 2002 at 04:06:10, Otello Gnaramori wrote:

>On December 31, 2001 at 15:14:56, Kevin Strickland wrote:
>
>>This afternoon I got an email from Gogi Cviak (cvrcko1@hotmail.com) with a sub7
>>virus attached stating that it was the first in his "wave" of attacks against
>>the people of this forum for making fun of him and providing details of his
>>emails to some of us.
>>
>>I have only one thing to say to you Gogi. I hope you enjoy no internet service
>>or atleast having to switch them. I have informed Hotmail of your actions with
>>their service, and as part of their ToS they will inform your isp.
>>
>>Happy New Year.
>>
>>PS - Take off the damn CAPS.
>
>This guy deserve to be banned from this forum and I hope that Steve or
>Moderators already took steps...
>
>Happy New Year,
>Otello.

To make it clear, I am an ex-moderator, but I put "moderation" in the title
because that's what we are talking about.

Whether or not this guy *should* be gotten rid of is an interesting and very
serious question.

If he had said rude things to all of us *here*, of the same magnitude as sending
someone a virus in the mail, he'd probably be gone.

If he had never posted here, and instead all of this had sprung from discussions
elsewhere, like for instance r.g.c.c., there is no argument to ban him here.

That he has seemingly taken "outside" revenge based upon arguments taking place
here is an interesting middle ground, and any action taken in this case should
come after a *lot* of consideration by the moderators.

That he sent me or Christophe or Bob rude email has no bearing on CCC, I think.
He probably thought to contact me because I answered one of his posts here, but
beyond that it was just an email interaction that went a little sour, and the
case is not at all related to anything that happened on the board.  The same is
probably true of Bob and Christophe.

These cases are like cases where one member sues another over something that
happened outside.  The board shouldn't take sides in these cases.  That someone
won the court case doesn't mean that the other guy loses his account.

I'm more concerned about this case where someone gets into an argument here, and
as a direct consequence intentionally sends someone a virus.  That is probably a
real crime of some sort, or at least it is *very* nasty and malicious, and
furthermore it's obviously very closely *related* to posts made here.

I don't want to have to deal with people who do that.  If someone gets a
reputation for sending viruses or threats or harassing email if you argue with
them, I think that's grounds for getting rid of the account.

bruce



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