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Following from the private email sent to you earlier today by Ginger Paque as regards your postings on the list, I am now following up with a formal warning . If you continue to post items including personal insults and abusive language., you will be suspended from the list. <BR>
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Most people would believe that your threat to “apply the boot” to a list member would fall into this category. This came after our warning for using phrases such as “I’ll kick your ass” and describing a list members behaviour as libellous and slanderous. This followed a number of complaints from list members.<BR>
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There will be no more warnings – as you say, arguing with you is pointless and I urge other list members to not respond to these sorts of postings. <BR>
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I want to make entirely clear that this is not about opinions you might have or want to express. It’s about the use of personal insults and abusive language. <BR>
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The relevant section of the charter is below. <BR>
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Ian Peter and Ginger Paque, Co-coordinators.<BR>
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Some of the specific guidelines that will be enforced include those relating to:<BR>
*No personal insults<BR>
*No spam<BR>
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Failure to abide by netiquette guidelines may result in suspension or removal from the IGC list according to the following process:<BR>
The coordinators will first warn a subscriber privately of the problem<BR>
If the problem persists the coordinators will notify the subscriber publicly on the list of impending suspension from the list. Suspension will include only posting rights.<BR>
If the problem persists the subscriber's posting rights will be suspended for one (1) month.<BR>
Once the subscriber's posting rights are restored, any further problem will result in another public warning.<BR>
If the problem continues to persist after suspension and a second public warning, the coordinators will be permitted to either suspend the posting rights for three (3) months or to remove the subscriber from the list.<BR>
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On 31/07/09 10:18 AM, "Joe Baptista" <baptista@publicroot.org> wrote:<BR>
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No - the best way to deal with is to behave as a child. Avri has already gotten plenty of grown up behavior and has been non responsive - now the time is coming to apply the boot.<BR>
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cheers<BR>
joe baptista<BR>
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p.s. arguing with me is pointless.<BR>
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