Author: Albert Silver
Date: 06:16:35 12/25/04
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On December 25, 2004 at 07:23:32, Uri Blass wrote:
>On December 25, 2004 at 07:14:33, pavel wrote:
>
>>On December 25, 2004 at 07:10:43, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On December 25, 2004 at 06:55:22, F. Huber wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 25, 2004 at 06:36:14, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Maybe I do not understand the term being member of the arena team but I think
>>>>>that it is possible that I could be a member of the arena team only by
>>>>>registering in
>>>>>http://www.playwitharena.co.uk/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=new_user
>>>>
>>>>That´s exactly the point: you don´t really understand the difference between
>>>>being a ´member of Arena forum´ and ´belonging to the Arena team´!
>>>>
>>>>The Arena _team_ consists of 5 forum admins (plus eventually Martin Blume) -
>>>>all normal registered users are only Arena _members_, and they are of course
>>>>not banned from the Winboard forum at all!
>>>>
>>>>Franz.
>>>
>>>still I see no reason to ban all of them.
>>>
>>>I do not know if someone of them complained but even if it is the case do all of
>>>them responsible for it?
>>>Is it fair to ban all of them?
>>>
>>>I thought that being a member of the arena forum means being in the arena team
>>>because I understood from previous posts of them that they ask for all the
>>>personal details because they prefer to work in a small team.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>No, it means, 4-5 people who are in charge of administrative work regarding
>>arena webpage and and direct development of the software.
>>
>>If you sign up in the arena forum, you are member of the arena forum, not a
>>member of the arena team.
>>
>>That's why I said you are over-reacting; and what Volker is doing seems to be
>>justified.
>>
>>pavs
>
>The term the arena team was not clear and the reason for my misunderstanding is
>previous posts of people who are responsible for Arena.
>
>Even after understanding it I cannot support banning these people not because of
>their actions in the forum and if some of them did nothing wrong in the forum
>and did not complain against Volker there is no reason to ban them.
>
>Uri
Although I understand your initial confusion, I don't understand your insistence
here now. You already know that as a member of the Arena forum (I am forbidden
from opening an account there for example), you are not in any danger of having
problems.
Volker was very seriously threatened by his ISP for accessing the Arena pages
due to a complaint they received. The complaint was made on behalf of the Arena
team, regarding the Arena pages, so it doesn't make any difference who of the
Arena team wrote the e-mail to his ISP. Just as I am not being prevented from
opening an account at Arena forums by one single person, but by the whole team.
Any decision made regarding there may be made by a single member, but it is done
on behalf of the entire team. So I think his reaction is quite normal frankly,
and to be honest, though I am a very tolerant person as a rule, I'd have done
much the same.
Albert
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