[squeak-dev] Apology for offensive spam on annoncements list

stephane ducasse stephane.ducasse at free.fr
Wed Feb 4 08:08:17 UTC 2009


I should say that I do not understand vandalism in general.
I'm estonished by bad energy people can have.
On our kids wiki in 1998 we got really stupid and ugly picture posted  
and I never understood
so we just blocked the pages (but there were not smalltalkers I  
imagine).

Stef


On Feb 1, 2009, at 4:49 PM, Alejandro F. Reimondo wrote:

> Hi Stef and Squeakers,
>
> Stef said:
>> It was clear that was not a Squeaker that wrote this shit.
>
> Do you know or made any investigation about
> ideas related with been a Squeaker that serve
> to moredate/orientate/control the personality of
> a Squeaker?
> (e.g. my swiki have been violated many times by
> people that I know has knowledge about Squeak,
> no deep knowledge I must say, but approx. one
> year of "been a Squeaker" or so)
>
> In the past I made studies trying to find
> a relation or pattern  in common between smalltalkers
> and I found more evidence of bad attitudes than
> good attitudes in practice (under human pov).
> It was frustrating for me at that time, but it did not
> stop me.
> I invested more efforts trying to understand a relation
> between the smalltalk architecture/design/formula
> and how it affects persons and how they evaluate
> the results of their actions (in reality, not in the systems
> they build with smalltalk).
>
> I think that Stef have not had the intention to promote
> a dialog about this topic, but it is something I am
> interested in, as a way to understand the changes
> in Smalltalk related communities in the last decade
> and the points of interest promoted by referents today.
>
> cheers,
> Ale.
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "stephane ducasse" <stephane.ducasse at free.fr 
> >
> To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> >
> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 10:46 AM
> Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Apology for offensive spam on annoncements  
> list
>
>
>> Hi ken
>>
>> It was clear that was not a Squeaker that wrote this shit.
>> Don't worry.
>>
>> Stef
>>
>> On Jan 25, 2009, at 9:04 PM, Ken Causey wrote:
>>
>>> I apologize for this coming through on the announcements mailing  
>>> list.
>>> I hope everyone realizes that I did not send this.  Several  
>>> copies  were
>>> received purportedly 'from' various community members.  With the
>>> announcements list I have had a policy of moderating all  
>>> messages,  even
>>> those from subscribers.  But in the last year or so I had begun to
>>> relaxen this somewhat by whitelisting anyone who sent messages
>>> regularly, this included myself.  Clearly this was a mistake and  
>>> I  will
>>> now remove myself and everyone else from the whitelist and I will  
>>> have
>>> to go back to moderating every single message.
>>>
>>> Again, my apologies,
>>>
>>> Ken Causey
>>>
>>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>>> From: Lawrence Auster <ken at kencausey.com>
>>> Reply-To: ken at kencausey.com
>>> To: announcements at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>>> Subject: [Squeak Announcements] Obama -- The Judas Goat
>>> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:52:47 +0100
>>>
>>> Obama -- The Judas Goat
>>> 1/25/2009
>>> By David Duke
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
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