[anti-abuse-wg] WG Chair Mailing List Decision

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 04:45:54PM +0000, Brian Nisbet wrote:
>We are not here to talk about other instances. This is about one
>instance. There does need to be further conversation about the
>AA-WG community and the list.

Agree.

>There is quite a lot of material that did not make it to the
>list because of the good offices of the NCC. Tobias and I asked
>them to take interim moderation measures. The question after
>that was to accept all mails or put in a ban, due to the
>continued issues we went for a ban.

That is not what I call the spirit of openness and transparency.
In fact, "based on seekrit information we have and you don't" is
pretty much the antithesis of that.

>Ridiculing and criticising are two very, very different things.

Criticising by ridiculing is in fact its very own art form -
satire, particularly political satire. Punishing and/or censoring
that is an attribute of a community or society that I do not very
much care to live in (again!).

>We have never suggested that founded and well argued criticism
>shouldn't be allowed. Repeated offensive behaviour is very
>different.

Something that is, alas, pretty much a feature of the entire
list.

rgds,
Sascha Luck


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>Brian Co-Chair, RIPE AA-WG
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