[ga] [ADMIN] Suspension of Eric Dierker and William Walsh

[Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

The list monitor has received a number of complaints about list behaviour 
over the last few days.
In general, they are concerned with William Walsh's attacks on Joop 
Ternstra over IDNO, Joop Ternstra's attacks on William Walsh, Eric 
Dierker's postings on all and sundry, Andy Gardner's posting of private 
email, and Jeff Williams' complaints about the attacks.

The list monitor wishes to remind the members of the language of the list 
rules:

    - The messages must be relevant to the business of the GA
    - The messages must observe a minimum of decorum, including:
         1.Not indulging in personal attacks, insults or slander
         2.Not using offensive language

The two bullets are given as examples of "a minimum of decorum", and are 
not an exhaustive description of "decorum".

It should be quite clear by now that decorum is not the operative term for 
the current debate. In particular, I point out:

Eric Dierker:

http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc06/msg00322.html

William Walsh:

http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc06/msg00316.html

Andy Garner:

http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc06/msg00270.html
(reposting of abusive material, personal attack in commentary)

I am particularly saddened by the fact that William Walsh seems to have 
considered the lifting of his earlier suspension not as a warning against 
his activities, but as a carte blanche to post any kind of attack on Joop's 
behaviour in the IDNO that he considers relevant to the IDNO/GA debate, as 
long as no single word of his many postings can be considered abusive in 
and of itself.

This is neither observing decorum nor a constructive approach to getting 
work done in the GA.

The list monitor, believing that this is the minimum action required, 
therefore hereby suspends the posting rights of William Walsh and Eric 
Dierker for 2 weeks from today.
Joop Ternstra and Andy Gardner in particular are warned that continuing the 
debate in the current style is not consistent with decorum, and that 
continuing the debate about interpretations of the history of the IDNO is 
inconsistent with relevance to the GA.

The suspensions will end on February 26.

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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, alvestrand@cisco.com
+47 41 44 29 94
Personal email: Harald@Alvestrand.no

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