Re: [ga] Joe Baptista's October removal from the GA list

[baptista@iname.com]

and now i'll check if i can post via iname.  if all goes well - i will
make an announcement in my name tommorrow.



On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:

>   I, in my capacity of alternate GA chair, have investigated the matter of Joe
>   Baptista's suspension from the GA list.
>   His email "baptista@pccf.net" was suspended on October 20 for posting
>   an irrelevant and insulting message on the GA list.
>   He has not asked for this address to be reinstated.
> 
>   His emails "baptista@iname.com" and "baptista@vrx.net", which he subscribed
>   with shortly afterwards, were temporarily suspended, but were reinstated
>   a few days later. He is not presently barred from posting in his own name
>   to the list.
> 
>   I regard removing Baptista's right to post because of this message as being
>   in conformance with common rules of list management.
>   We will continue to work out procedures to make sure that if this becomes
>   necessary in the future, all parties will have due notification of who is
>   being blocked, why, and how long the blocking will be in place.
> 
>                            Harald T. Alvestrand
> 
> --
> Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
> Harald.Alvestrand@edb.maxware.no
> 
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