Dear members, This week, the Executive Board placed members-discuss into moderation. We subsequently removed several messages from the archives that contained incredibly explicit, discriminating and abhorrent content. Further, these mails were impersonating representatives of RIPE NCC members and were clearly intended to be harmful to them. These mails breached the code of conduct that we expect members to follow on the mailing list on many levels. We therefore took the unprecedented step of removing the content of these mails and marked them as [Moderated] in the archives. I sincerely hope this is the last time we need to take such actions. I believe we can all agree that the behaviour that warranted the measures taken yesterday was not something we want to see again. I ask you to be civil in your discourse, to avoid aggravating fellow members and member representatives, and above all to treat each other with the respect that we deserve. Our membership plays an extremely important role in advancing the Internet in our part of the world. Let us remember that we can do this much more effectively when we work together to solve our disagreements positively and constructively. Regards, Christian Kaufmann RIPE NCC Executive Board Chairman