Andre, Thank you for your apology. We seem to live in an increasingly complex world and the trade-offs between convenient and open/free have never seemed quite so... difficult... to me at least. Should you feel you can return to us at some point and engage in a continually constructive manner, you would be welcome. Brian Co-Chair, RIPE AA-WG Brian Nisbet Service Operations Manager HEAnet CLG, Ireland's National Education and Research Network 1st Floor, 5 George's Dock, IFSC, Dublin D01 X8N7, Ireland +35316609040 brian.nisbet@heanet.ie www.heanet.ie Registered in Ireland, No. 275301. CRA No. 20036270

-----Original Message----- From: anti-abuse-wg <anti-abuse-wg-bounces@ripe.net> On Behalf Of ac Sent: Friday 19 July 2019 06:34 To: Brian Nisbet <brian.nisbet@heanet.ie> Cc: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Reminder: Mailing List Code of Conduct

Hi,

I apologise for my recent poor behavior and my use of profanity (specifically the word "bullshit") - I have grown much less tolerant of large tech and as society is losing this war anyway, it is causing me enormous amounts of stress. When innocent things happen that contribute negatively to the advancement of a free and open society and play into the hands of the dominating players, I lose my cool...

This is not cool and not fair to you and I am sorry :(

I do understand that my behavior does not serve my cause and I am not a nice enough person to simply be myself on this list, so my choices are to be someone else or to leave.

So long and thanks for all the fish,

Andre

On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 16:44:45 +0000 Brian Nisbet <brian.nisbet@heanet.ie> wrote:

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Colleagues,

Because we wish to be very open on this, the Co-Chairs would like to remind everyone of the RIPE Mailing List/RIPE Forum Code of Conduct.

https://www.ripe.net/participate/mail/ripe-mailing-list-ripe-forum-cod e-of-conduct

There is plenty of room for debate, discussion and even arguments on this list and in this community. What there isn't room for is attacking people, for shutting down arguments with ad hominem attacks and for choosing to be rude rather than taking the opportunity to educate. All of this is a balance, but sadly here discussion is unbalanced more frequently than it should be.

We have a great wish to see that useful discussion continue and flourish.

Where the Co-Chairs feel that there are issues, we will contact the relevant parties personally to discuss and take whatever action is deemed necessary after those discussions.

Thanks,

Brian Co-Chair, RIPE AA-WG

Brian Nisbet Service Operations Manager HEAnet CLG, Ireland's National Education and Research Network 1st Floor, 5 George's Dock, IFSC, Dublin D01 X8N7, Ireland +35316609040 brian.nisbet@heanet.ie www.heanet.ie Registered in Ireland, No. 275301. CRA No. 20036270