[ga-abuse] Re: Complaint Against Kristy McKee

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

Hello Quad,

Monday, July 30, 2001, 6:53:03 AM, Quad Patrick wrote:

> Dear William

> I refer to your complaint against Kristy McKee as follows:
> http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc08/msg00103.html
> and advise that it has been decided to take no further action
> for the following reasons:

> First of all, the posting is not off-topic: Kristy McKee replies to an
> analogy used by Kent Crispin between computer scientists and heart
> surgeons.

What the message she was replying to was about has no bearing on
whether her message was on or off topic.  This is ludicrous.

Mr Younger, you need to decide if these people can properly carry out
their duties, and if not replace them.

> It is not the list monitor's job to decide whether such
> analogies are especially helpful for the business of the GA, only
> whether they are irrelevant or not.

> Secondly, about the first paragraph: "Your lack of logic and loss of
> strength in communication concerns me, I hope everything is okay in
> your life."

> Had it been worded in a stronger way, a warning would be appropriate.
> However, there is a difference between this sentence and inappropriate
> personal attacks which have triggered warnings and suspensions in the past.
> This post does not quite cross the boundary between acceptable criticism and
> an inappropriate personal attack, even though it seems that the sentence
> centers on the person, Kent, instead of his opinion.

Oh please.  So provided she doesn't word it harshly, she can make
make these kinds of thinly veiled personal attacks, but others get
sanctions for messages referring to the history of the IDNO?


> Clearly a warning in this case would interpret this posting in the most
> negative way.  If generally adopted, this would set too high a standard for
> subscribers to follow.

This is a ludicrous decision.  I appeal to the chair to overturn this
decision.

-- 
Best regards,
William X Walsh <william@userfriendly.com>
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