[IMC-bristol] Re: An Apology: About My Email

[crash]

Hello James and others,

I now appreciate the reasons behind your complaint while appreciating 
your apology for making it. I also appreciate that attempts to encourage 
users to change their behaviour on the site require can only work 
through the editorial policy, agreed by consensus. Although attempts at 
moderation were discussed at the previous meeting, it would be better 
for the group to come out with a statement. Therefore I think tomorrow's 
meeting has to attempt to forge a new version of the editorial 
guidelines. I don't expect that to be easy!

Perhaps there also needs to be a statement added to the subscribe page 
for this list, as many people (myself included) were probably not aware 
when joining that the list is public, meaning that all our email 
addresses are becoming googled.

James, if people are sending forged email under your name that is 
extremely serious - but as Tom pointed out, it should be possible to 
trace these unfortunate people.

Regards,

Crash




James Venables wrote:

> Hello BIMC & Crash,
>
> I would just like to clarify the problems I've been having with my 
> email, & why I recently got so annoyed at it being further distributed 
> by IMC, & why I now appreciate that my anger at BIMC was misdirected.
>
> Having done a google search myself I can see that this email is now 
> irreversibly in the public domain. The extent to which my email is in 
> circulation, & the extent to which I am associated with the anti-war 
> movement means that I receive huge quantities of poisonous mail, & 
> unknown amount of poisonous mail is also put out under my name.
>
> There are certainly attempts being made to slur my name, but I am now 
> adjusting to that, & accept that it will now be a permanent feature of 
> my political life. I can also now see that these attempts to slur my 
> name are evidence of the success I have had, & am having upon those 
> who are made uncomfortable by such success.
>
> I am also now learning that making flippant remarks in a public domain 
> as if I was in a pub conversation is not wise, as these remarks are 
> being watched like hawks & used as fuel for the imaginations of those 
> with a poison pen bearing my name.
>
> I am happy to have made myself the target of these shadowy people, but 
> I am sorry to have misdirected my anger & energies upon all you 
> wonderful people at Bristol Indymedia.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> James Venables