[wlug_org] Your post to the wlug_org list

[Jamie Dobbs]

Jeremy

I do not appreciate the fact the you made it public to the wlug_org list 
that I had left the wellylug list. What I do with respect to list 
subscriptions is confidential to me and not for others to be told about. 
Unless conditional membership to the wellylug list makes it quite clear 
that you will be monitored and could have notice of your 
subscription/unsubscription posted in a publicly viewable forum then I 
do not see how this is either legal or ethical.

I also do not appreciate the tone that was used in the posting of your 
message and kindly request that you make the wlug_org aware that I have 
requested that your post and the replies to it be removed from the 
publicly accessible wlug_org archive web page.

I would also like to make it clear to you that my comments were aimed at 
the "preciousness" that wellylug appears to have developed and was not 
at all aimed at Ewens rules on the list and the posting of commercial 
material. But I do fail to see how asking a persons experience with an 
online store constitutes any form of commercial posting, but I guess it 
is Ewens right to deny this and it must be abided by.

My main reason for removing myself from the list was this comment 
"..than some of the precious whiners who seem to hang around the list 
occasionally". This was quite clearly aimed at me and the fact that I do 
not just accept everything that is said on the wellylug list, and that I 
am prepared to stand up and offer an opinion on those things that I am 
not prepared to accept. Obviously it is not acceptable to be 
"non-compliant" and it is for this reason that I am no longer on the 
wellylug list, and have nothing more to do with the Wellington Linux 
Users Group.

You need to remember that Linux can, and will, only be accepted by the 
masses when it is easy to use and as widely supported as Microsoft 
Windows is and I fear that this is many years away and that Linux will 
stay for the time-being as something for geeks to play with. I have 
known many people who have been completely turned away from Linux after 
seeing the rabid rantings of Linux zealots and I also fear that this is 
not something that will change in the near future either.

Regards

Jamie Dobbs