This guy is just a troll; unfortunately engaging with him
in this manner just encourages him. He posts the way he
does on the list and contacts people off-list to insult
them and swear at them to provoke a response.
Engaging with him is a serious mistake...
--
Dr Jon Cloke
Lecturer
Geography Department
Loughborough University
Loughborough LE11 3TU
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Tel: 00 44 07984 813681
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:42:10 -0400
Bruce D'Arcus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 6:51 PM, George Oguntunde
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Are you serious?
>>
>> It is not appropriate to contact people off the list
>>with respect to issues
>> posted on the list?
>>
>> So if someone is interested in a conference posted on
>>the list they are not
>> permitted to contact the poster off list?
>>
>> If someone wishes to thank someone for a posting they
>>cannot do so off list?
>>
>> I have read the regulations and this draconian rule you
>>claim is not
>> mentioned. Please cite it.
>>
>> How on earth can this be a "radical" and "critical" list
>>if it is forbidden
>> to even contact people off list - sounds like FASCISM to
>>me.
>
> Right. The issue clearly isn't whether you contact
>people off-list,
> but how. If you contact people to insult them, for
>example, then that
> steps over a line, and should absolutely be grounds for
>removal from
> the list.
>
> But even your on-list posts--including this one
>("FASCISM"?)--put you
> awfully close to classic internet troll territory ...
>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29>
>
> Bruce
