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RE: [Asrg] Blacklisted from posting to asrg

2005-06-06 14:06:53
Tut tut, didn't send an immediate response to you on a weekend.

Perhaps he does something else on his weekends? Its not that easy using
a RIM pager while you waterski you know.

-----Original Message-----
From: asrg-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org 
[mailto:asrg-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org] On 
Behalf Of william(at)elan.net
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 11:25 AM
To: Bill Cole
Cc: asrg(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: [Asrg] Blacklisted from posting to asrg



On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Bill Cole wrote:

At 5:58 AM -0700 6/6/05, vwl(_at_)elan(_dot_)net wrote:
Apparently the ASRG chair has decided to blacklist me from 
posting on 
my
primary address as constructive technical critique of his 
own proposal
and its security weaknesses is not something he can deal 
with and is good 
enough reason to blacklist one of the largest contributors 
to ASRG who has 
been here from the beginning (and of course he also failed 
to mention to me 
or on the list that I was blacklisted from posting to the list).

On what basis do you believe this?

There was another post made on Saturday that did not reach 
the list (der Mouse can verify as it was addressed to him 
with cc to the list)

I subsequently let John Levine know that there might be a 
problem with mail list system when the post did not show up 
in any of my accounts, there was no response received. At 
some point on Sunday I made a test post to see if it would 
reach the list, it did not.

On Monday I used another account to see if mail list server 
is working 
(keep in mind I'm also signed up with yet another account but 
its separate system and I wanted to test is in particular for 
the elan mail 
server to verify it was issue with server or not). That test 
post reached 
the list immediately. Based on that I had to conclude that 
the issue is 
specific to posting from william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net account that was 
banned from 
posting, my view is that there was no inappropriate conduct 
that would 
have let to it.

In about 5 minutes after posting account was probably 
unblocked and my test post reached the list. The other post 
still did not.

I see a post from you about BATV on the list yesterday with these 
headers:

Yesterday is Sunday. The post you cited did reach the list, 
the other one did not. I checked archives as well.

Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 11:39:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: "william(at)elan.net" <william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net>
To: John Levine <asrg(_at_)johnlevine(_dot_)com>
Subject: Re: [Asrg] Re: BATV and SES - was forged bounces
In-Reply-To: 
<20050604173551(_dot_)20008(_dot_)qmail(_at_)xuxa(_dot_)iecc(_dot_)com>
Message-ID: 
<Pine(_dot_)LNX(_dot_)4(_dot_)62(_dot_)0506041050180(_dot_)17965(_at_)sokol(_dot_)elan(_dot_)net>
References: 
<20050604173551(_dot_)20008(_dot_)qmail(_at_)xuxa(_dot_)iecc(_dot_)com>


I also see 2 tests, one from william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net:

Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 17:58:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: "william(at)elan.net" <william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net>
To: asrg(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Message-ID: 
<Pine(_dot_)LNX(_dot_)4(_dot_)62(_dot_)0506051757360(_dot_)2487(_at_)sokol(_dot_)elan(_dot_)net>


and one from vwl(_at_)elan(_dot_)net, apparently with no From header 
until it was 
added
by the list server:

That is not true, actually vwl(_at_)elan(_dot_)net is separate account 
and it sends emails with "From: vwl(_at_)elan(_dot_)net" and no "pretty 
name", that is how it is 
setup. There are people who would remember that 
william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net was for 
long time setup the same way (in fact its default way it 
works on my mail system, unless name is added as part of MUA 
preference).

I'll not comment on this issue any more until I get some more 
info from 
ASRG or IRTF Chairs, but I'd like to note that in his 
response John Levine 
did not state that my complain that messages from me were 
being blocked 
is not true. He stated that making such complaints is not 
appropriate, 
but I seem to recall it happening number of times on other ietf lists.

According to guidelines at thttp://www.ietf.org/maillist.html

  Inappropriate postings to discussion lists include:
   1 Unsolicited bulk e-mail
   2 Discussion of subjects unrelated to IETF policy, 
meetings, activities,
     or technical concerns
   3 Unprofessional commentary, regardless of the general subject

Mail list administration issues would not fall under 1 or 2 (this is 
related to ietf/irtf activities), it might fall under 3 
depending on how the complaint is written, but I do not see 
directly where it says that discussions of list 
administration problems are not appropriate. If it is not I 
apologize if I made wrong judgment about it based on 
apparently bad conduct of people on other ietf lists.

In any case if John wants to explain what happened, he can go 
ahead and do it privately to me and I'll withdraw the 
complaint, but I'd remind him to keep in mind listed above 
rule #3 for private as well as public communication.

P.S. For Gadi Evron - I was not evading. I really did post 
from different account that was signed up to the list, using 
multiple accounts on the same list is not unusual for me and 
folks at ASRG know that.

-- 
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net

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