Andre, Thank you for your apology. We seem to live in an increasingly complex world and the trade-offs between convenient and open/free have never seemed quite so... difficult... to me at least.
Should you feel you can return to us at some point and engage in a continually constructive manner, you would be welcome. Brian Co-Chair, RIPE AA-WG Brian Nisbet Service Operations Manager HEAnet CLG, Ireland's National Education and Research Network 1st Floor, 5 George's Dock, IFSC, Dublin D01 X8N7, Ireland +35316609040 brian.nis...@heanet.ie www.heanet.ie Registered in Ireland, No. 275301. CRA No. 20036270 > -----Original Message----- > From: anti-abuse-wg <anti-abuse-wg-boun...@ripe.net> On Behalf Of ac > Sent: Friday 19 July 2019 06:34 > To: Brian Nisbet <brian.nis...@heanet.ie> > Cc: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net > Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Reminder: Mailing List Code of Conduct > > > Hi, > > I apologise for my recent poor behavior and my use of profanity (specifically > the word "bullshit") - I have grown much less tolerant of large tech and as > society is losing this war anyway, it is causing me enormous amounts of > stress. When innocent things happen that contribute negatively to the > advancement of a free and open society and play into the hands of the > dominating players, I lose my cool... > > This is not cool and not fair to you and I am sorry :( > > I do understand that my behavior does not serve my cause and I am not a > nice enough person to simply be myself on this list, so my choices are to be > someone else or to leave. > > So long and thanks for all the fish, > > Andre > > On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 16:44:45 +0000 > Brian Nisbet <brian.nis...@heanet.ie> wrote: > > > Colleagues, > > > > Because we wish to be very open on this, the Co-Chairs would like to > > remind everyone of the RIPE Mailing List/RIPE Forum Code of Conduct. > > > > https://www.ripe.net/participate/mail/ripe-mailing-list-ripe-forum-cod > > e-of-conduct > > > > There is plenty of room for debate, discussion and even arguments on > > this list and in this community. What there isn't room for is > > attacking people, for shutting down arguments with ad hominem attacks > > and for choosing to be rude rather than taking the opportunity to > > educate. All of this is a balance, but sadly here discussion is > > unbalanced more frequently than it should be. > > > > We have a great wish to see that useful discussion continue and > > flourish. > > > > Where the Co-Chairs feel that there are issues, we will contact the > > relevant parties personally to discuss and take whatever action is > > deemed necessary after those discussions. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Brian > > Co-Chair, RIPE AA-WG > > > > Brian Nisbet > > Service Operations Manager > > HEAnet CLG, Ireland's National Education and Research Network 1st > > Floor, 5 George's Dock, IFSC, Dublin D01 X8N7, Ireland > > +35316609040 brian.nis...@heanet.ie www.heanet.ie > > Registered in Ireland, No. 275301. CRA No. 20036270 > > > > >
