Account of Board Candidate Terminated

Dec 3 04:37 UTC 2003

It appears that my account, jp2, has been frozen.  My email forwarding has
been terminated.  Further, my election statement has been removed from
display in the vote program.

This places in a clear and undisputable disadvantage in the election.  I
demand immediate corrective action in that my account be reinstated and
that my campaign statement be returned to public viewing.

Is this the way you treat all users who may disagree with you when they
pose a credible threat to the governance structure?

response 2 of 130:

Dec 3 04:59 UTC 2003

(By the way, this is bloody exciting.)

response 4 of 130:

Dec 3 05:08 UTC 2003

        Date:   2 December 2003 5:24:08 PM EST
        To:       Tao Xiao Sa <jp2>

Calling Greg's (flem) comment a suggestion to spam recent users is a 
gross and cynical attempt to evade responsibility for your own 
choice to abuse Grex's resources.  There have been hundreds if not 
thousands of occasions in Grex history on which mass email to some 
subset of users has been considered and rejected as a means to 
communicate something of importance to the system.  The reasons for 
rejecting this method have not changed, and your choice to ignore 
them ought to result in your account being locked.  Since it has 
not, I can only imagine that you have been given special treatment 
because your *apparent* motives are honorable, but personally, I 
cannot find any reason to believe that your wishes with regard to 
Grex can even begin to approximate anything honorable.

You have been warned.

On 2 Dec 2003, at 3:55 PM, Tao Xiao Sa wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, STeve Andre' wrote:

> > You know,  spamming Grex with 1,836 copies of this email is
> > NOT a reaonable thing to do.  Glenda informed me that the
> > load average was up around 28, and after getting your mail
> > to "help" (see below) it didn't take too long to figure out what
> > was going on.

> > This is an absolute mis-use of Grex's resources.  Thanks for
> > making Grex slower than it already was.

> How did you get mail to help?  I only sent it out to users logged
> in over the past 36 hours.

> There were only 909.  You should also note that Board member flem
> suggested this:

        If Jamie really wanted to do something useful to Grex, he should
        spend some time talking to regular users who are not members and
        finding out why they are not members, and what we could do to
        entice them to become members.

> Wait until you see the data I am getting back.  I've already 
> convinced at least three people to sign up :)

response 6 of 130:

Dec 3 05:21 UTC 2003

So wait, wait, wait, let me get this straight.  I receive a warning, then
despite no further infraction of your secret rule set, I then get my access
yanked?

Could I ask under which section of the Bylaws the staff can unilaterally limit
a member's rights and privleges?