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Subject: Re: Moderation: Warning to all!!

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 20:16:09 01/01/02

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On January 01, 2002 at 13:57:50, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>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



Clearly.

Let's get rid of it.



    Christophe



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