[ga-abuse] M1 against Russ Smith

[Alexander Svensson <svensson@icannchannel.de>]

M1: Alexander Svensson
Against: Russ Smith ("admin"), admin@consumer.net
Complainants:  William S. Lovell, wsl@cerebalaw.com
Complainant Comments: "The following is yet another
email by Russ Smith containing gross name calling about
which I wish to complain."
Date:  17-Aug-01
Message:
http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc08/msg00547.html

Grounds: Personal attack, insults, slander
Recommendation: Suspension, two weeks.

M1 Comment:

This is the relevant part of the message by Russ Smith:
> Mr. Lynn is just another of a long line of stooges, crooks,
> liars, frauds, (and their associated  cheerleaders like who you)
> that I dislike.

"Stooge" and "fraud" are certainly personal attacks,
"liar" and "crook" are strong attacks and slanderous
in addition. Russ Smith had just been warned against
personal attacks ("You are such an unbelivable liar and
a fraud."). There's no minimum of decorum here.

Proposal for a message to the GA:
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The list monitors note that the posting rights of
Russ Smith, admin@consumer.net, have been suspended
for two weeks, effective immediately.

The list monitors find that postings by Russ Smith
contained personal attacks, some of them slanderous.
("You are such an unbelivable liar and a fraud."
http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc08/msg00341.html;
"just another of a long line of stooges, crooks, liars, frauds"
http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc08/msg00547.html;
"You are lying.  It is unbelievable that you are
blatantly lying like this on this list."
http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc08/msg00334.html)

The GA posting rules are laid down in
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/2000.GA-ga-rules.html:

- The messages must be relevant to the business of the GA
- The messages must observe a minimum of decorum, including:
  - Not indulging in personal attacks, insults or slander
  - Not using offensive language
- If the GA Chair or a list monitor asks for a limit to the number
  of posts per person per day, this must be respected
- The size of messages should be kept reasonable (there should be
  a VERY good reason to send a message of more than 10 Kbytes).

The list monitors note that Russ Smith has been
previously warned against making personal attacks and
have therefore now decided to suspend the posting rights
of Russ Smith for two weeks. This decision can be
appealed to the GA Chair.
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M2:
M2 Comment:
Action: