I totally agree with Rob.
Linda.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Harper [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 21 July 2014 09:33
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Reminder on list content
>
> Stephen Burke wrote:
> > If the concern is libel, it seems unlikely that saying that someone
> > has submitted a lot of jobs is libellous - accusing someone of being a
> > hacker could be a different matter.
>
> I don't think this is about libel or accusations of criminal activity, but more about
> respect for the individual and trying to avoid making their life unnecessarily
> harder in the future. If I was thinking of offering a job to Joe Bloggs, and did the
> now-standard thing of applying Google-fu to find more about him and found
> that he had been banned from using grid resources, it might raise a question
> mark in my mind. I might not realise that the ban was due to some
> misconfiguration at the VO level and Joe was completely innocent, and that the
> ban was temporary and just to protect sites from wayward jobs until the
> configuration could be fixed.
>
> It just seems to me that the right thing is to keep the names of 3rd party
> individuals out of public discussions.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
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