Re: A86: Attn: Bryan Rabeler
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Re: A86: Attn: Bryan Rabeler
Shouldn't this be sent directly to Bryan and NOT throught the mailing
list? For one thing, it's harmful to Bryan (at least I'd find it as
something that I wouldn't want spread around). And another thing, it's
off-topic. Maybe you should follow the words you preach.
What about idanny? He was just as off-topic as Bryan, if not more so.
Why was he spared the punishment of being banned from the list?
Eric Greening
Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
> Bryan,
>
> Effective immediately, you have been removed from all ticalc.org hosted
> mailinglists.
>
> This is because you are, with no regards to the warnings sent, have
> repeatedly initiated and fueled completely off-topic discussions. This is
> very annoying to the people who are subscribed to these mailinglists. They
> subscribed to talk about [insert what the mailinglist is about, for example,
> assembly on the TI-86 calculator], not about what you think of ticalc.org or
> the staff-members of ticalc.org. Or anybody else, for that matter.
>
> This action is taken because a lot of our users have complained about this
> issue, and done so repeatedly. In previous cases this has happened, warnings
> have been sent out. You have defiantly continued until the last minute
> before the ban would take place. Once over the time limit, you have held up
> for a couple of days, and then started again. To put it simple, this is not
> acceptable behavior on our mailinglists.
>
> Consider this your last chance. In four weeks time, on March 21st, you are
> allowed to resubscribe to any mailinglist you are interested in. Until then,
> you are explicitly *NOT* allowed to do this. You may read the traffic on the
> lists as any other person is allowed to do, using the web interface on
> http://www.ticalc.org/community/lists/.
>
> Should you attempt to break this, by subscribing before the allowed time,
> you will be permanently banned from our mailinglists. We hereby clearly
> state that you are *completely forbidden* to do this, and any attempt to do
> so will be considered abuse of our network services. This will be reported
> to your ISP and any upstream providers for further action to be taken.
>
> Once this period has expired, you are allowed to fully participate in any
> *on-topic* discussions on the mailinglists again. But consider yourself
> permanently warned about repeating these offenses - action will be taken. We
> will not let the usability of our mailinglists to all of our users suffer
> from the personal "profit" of one.
>
> And before you say it - should you feel it would do any good, I will happily
> set up a mailinglist for you to discuss these things with any interested
> parties. Just let me know, and I'll do it. But notice the words *interested
> parties* - anybody interested can subscribe. (Naturally, the list would be
> removed if there were too few subscribers - say below 10 or so). This goes
> to show that we are *not* out to silence you (which you seem to bring up any
> time we say anything about your repeated offenses), but rather seek to keep
> our services usable for those who use them for what they were meant for.
>
> Regards,
> Magnus Hagander
> List administrator, lists.ticalc.org
> System Administrator, SolNet
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