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Some problems with Mr. Towns as well

Hello,

Although I'm not contrary to the announced disciplinary sanction, I find
the tone of the announcement disturbing.

I consider messages styled like "Daddy caught you with a finger in the
jam" cute and funny in communities where the audience is a small group
of friends; much less so on a stage, in front of a public of a thousand
people and more.

A simple "The account xxx has been suspended following event yyy
according to policy zzz" would have done the job just as fine, but
without disrespect for the people involved.


Ciao,

Enrico

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GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org>
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On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 03:04:39PM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote:
...a mail that appeared via debian-devel-announce.

How odd. That's a developers only list and Ingo's no developer. Who was
it signed by?

[-- PGP output follows (current time: Sun Feb 22 00:49:39 2004) --]
gpg: Signature made Sun Feb 22 00:04:39 2004 EST using DSA key ID 7F4E0E11
gpg: Good signature from "Bastian Blank <bastianb@gmx.de>"
gpg:                 aka "Bastian Blank <waldi_@gmx.de>"
...

Ahh. From the DMUP:

] Examples of what we consider net abuse:
]  * Forged headers and / or Addresses
]
] Forging headers or messages means sending mail such that its origin
] appears to be another user or machine, or a non-existent machine.

] * Penalties
] If someone violates the rules set in this document he will be subjected
] to a penalty. The penalty depends on the number of previous violations
] and the offense involved.
]
]   1. First offense
]         1. The accounts of the offender will be suspended and access
]            will not be available.

Complaints are completely off topic for announcement lists. WTF were you
thinking?

Cheers,
aj

-- 
Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/>
I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred.

             Linux.conf.au 2004 -- Because we could.
           http://conf.linux.org.au/ -- Jan 12-17, 2004

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