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      received a direct solicitation that is unwanted.</div>
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      Daniel~<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/7/20 4:33 AM, Sam Gaw wrote:<br>
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          style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Sadly, moderation
          appears to have simply moved the problem with an election
          candidate taking to mining RipeDB and spamming contacts
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          style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Can anyone advise what
          the procedure for reporting DB abuse is?</div>
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                    <span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Regards,<br>
                      Sam Gaw<br>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 16:55,
          Dmitry P <<a href="mailto:head@global-data-networks.com"
            moz-do-not-send="true">head@global-data-networks.com</a>>
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          0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I
          agree with Chris.<br>
          <br>
          Imposing moderation globally would affect freedom of
          expression,<br>
          resulting into censorship based on opinion of moderators,
          which also<br>
          could be misleading, because nothing is fully protected from
          the risks<br>
          related to human factor.<br>
          <br>
          The discussion should be open. A possibility of ignoring some
          determined<br>
          email by one member should be enough to deal with unwanted
          content,<br>
          however, I believe this is already implemented by most email
          clients.<br>
          One could simply add an email to their ignore filter list and
          this is<br>
          enough in the most cases.<br>
          <br>
          On 5/4/20 8:06 AM, Chris Izzard wrote:<br>
          > Dear Piotr,<br>
          >               Reading this it sounds great at first but
          whatever you do to stop such huge email chains will always
          look like censorship whatever you like to call it. Such email
          lists do depend on the behaviour of everyone to follow a code
          but in practice this is usually not 100% possible.<br>
          > Yes it seemed that the email list was mostly in favour of
          censoring one person but the reality is that the vast majority
          just watched on and said nothing. In practice censoring
          damages the democratic credentials of this group because a
          small number of people have made the decision to do this and
          an even smaller number of people will police it.<br>
          > This action has put the Executive Board in a dangerous
          position open to all kinds of criticism and the email chain
          contained some pretty bad claims like Anti-Semitism.<br>
          ><br>
          > To make things much more simple and leave the censorship
          to the individual we could learn from Facebook.<br>
          > If a post is made in Facebook and you do not want to keep
          getting posts the individual can turn off notifications
          without stopping the discussion for the rest of the people
          i.e. The vast majority. Remember there are hundreds of people
          who just observed and did not make a comment but may be
          interested in both sides of the discussion. To do this before
          an election is not a good idea at all, remember Russian
          interference in the US and UK elections claims? It has not
          gone away.<br>
          > This simple process would mean that for 99% of issues
          discussed the small censoring committee would not be needed
          except for personal abuse and offensive language.<br>
          > It also means that people do not have to unsubscribe to
          the list permanently just for the email chain.<br>
          ><br>
          > Thanks for your time.<br>
          ><br>
          > Regards<br>
          ><br>
          > Chris Izzard<br>
          > Director of Commercial Operations<br>
          > IMC Island Ehf<br>
          > Skipholt 50b<br>
          > 105 Reykjavik<br>
          > Iceland<br>
          > PLMN Code: ISLVW<br>
          > Mob:  +44 7968 602 280<br>
          > Mob: +354 389013 343<br>
          > Skype:  chris.izzard<br>
          ><br>
          ><br>
          ><br>
          > -----Original Message-----<br>
          > From: members-discuss <<a
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            target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">members-discuss-bounces@ripe.net</a>>
          On Behalf Of Piotr Strzyzewski<br>
          > Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 16:48<br>
          > To: <a href="mailto:members-discuss@ripe.net"
            target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">members-discuss@ripe.net</a><br>
          > Subject: [members-discuss] Placing Members-Discuss in
          Moderation<br>
          ><br>
          > Dear members,<br>
          ><br>
          > Today, the Executive Board held a formal meeting in order
          to officially resolve the appointment of Hans Petter Holen as
          Managing Director of the RIPE NCC.<br>
          ><br>
          > In light of recent activity on the members-discuss
          mailing list, we also resolved to place the members-discuss
          mailing list in moderation until 1 June. This follows numerous
          complaints that have been made about mails that are off-topic
          and/or contain material that does not show tolerance or
          respect for fellow members of the list.<br>
          ><br>
          > The resolution and accompanying text is contained in the
          draft minutes:<br>
          > <a
href="https://www.ripe.net/about-us/executive-board/minutes/2020/minutes-134th-executive-board-meeting"
            rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.ripe.net/about-us/executive-board/minutes/2020/minutes-134th-executive-board-meeting</a><br>
          ><br>
          > With this resolution, the principles of the RIPE Mailing
          List/RIPE Forum Code of Conduct will be applied to the
          members-discuss list. Emails that do not meet the requirements
          of that code of conduct will not be approved to be posted to
          the list.<br>
          ><br>
          > Mails that do not meet the intended purpose of providing
          members with a means to discuss membership issues among
          themselves will also not be approved to be posted to the list.<br>
          ><br>
          > The moderators of the list will be the Executive Board
          Secretary and one senior member of RIPE NCC staff. Mails will
          be moderated during office hours. A separate archive of all
          mails including those rejected by the moderators is available
          for all members to view should they wish to do  so:<br>
          > <a
href="https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/members-discuss-unmoderated/"
            rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/members-discuss-unmoderated/</a><br>
          ><br>
          > The Board is obviously aware that there is an election
          taking place at the General Meeting and there are also matters
          of importance to discuss such as the RIPE NCC Financial Report
          2019 and the RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2021. We are determined
          to ensure that we remain neutral in facilitating this
          membership discussion list, and we also hope that members will
          abide by the purpose of the list and the principles of the
          code of conduct.<br>
          ><br>
          > Regards,<br>
          ><br>
          > Piotr Strzyżewski<br>
          > RIPE NCC Executive Board Secretary<br>
          ><br>
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