[IMC-bristol] COMPLAINT

[sam rossiter]

Hello James/all

Your e-mail address is well and truly in the public
domain- it could be found via bristol.indymedia.org,
this e-mail list, bristol stop war group or just via
google

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&cr=countryUK|countryGB&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=james+venables&spell=1r


So i'm not sure that you really have a substantial
complaint about privacy, It was maybe thoughtless for
crash to include it in a e-mail, but given the already
public nature of that information I cannot see it as a
'substantial' complaint.

I can see that it's probably irritating and a polite
e-mail to this list would probably have elicited a
apology for that.

However look at the kind of language that you use
James:

"> & I demand an immediate apology from
crash at subsection.org.uk, or
> the suspension of 
> his/her IMC access codes while this abuse is
> addressed. "but I  will not tolerate a clumsy
infringement of my right
> to privacy,"  "& will therefore in absolutely no way
> shape or form agree at any level" 

It's all demands and how there is no room for
comprimise, It is hardly an approcah that can fail to
raise hackles- but why take this approch?

As you acknowledge we tread a fine line between
freedom of speech and maintaining a useful newsource: 

  "As you all know I 
> have made complaints before on issues of baiting" 

If you accept that 'baiting' or deliberately setting
out for an arguement is inappropriate behavior then i
dont see why you have taken such an issue when crash
has sent you a perfectly polite and appropriate e-mail
(addmittedly thoughtlessly leaving in your e-mail
address on Jographers copy) asking you to consider
what you have written.

We are trying to broaden the appeal of the site - and
this cannot happen when people do not respect the
freedoms that the software grants- 

Sam



__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now
http://companion.yahoo.com/