Most offensive thing I've seen all day

[Melissa Draper]

Alexander Jacob Tsykin wrote:
> On Friday 04 August 2006 23:42, Michael T. Richter wrote:
>   
>> Now of course I didn't send it to the list.  You did.  Which is at the very
>> least a breach of etiquette, if not directly a breach of the CoC as it's
>> worded.
>>     
> a) agreed
>   

Michael, I sincerely apologise for the action of forwarding the email to
the list.

I regret having sent the mail to the list now. It was done in a moment
when I was influenced by extreme and traumatic personal distress
regarding an unrelated incident and I was pushed over the edge by the
offensive nature of your email. While I did not take the email as an
attack, I did find it *extremely offensive*. I'm not offended by much,
but the comments that in your email *did* genuinely offend me and make
me uncomfortable.

My decision to continue the discussion to the list was due to *my*
interpretation of the CoC where it said: "You should turn to the
community and to the community process to seek advice and to resolve
disagreements.". Your uninvited email made me feel *very uncomfortable*,
and that falls under the section of the CoC that is titled 'Be respectful'.

This is not an attack on you personally, however it is an explanation
for my actions.

> b) this discussion is just trolling if you two are going to insult eachother 
> (and I am for once siding totally with Michael on this one) so if you are 
> going to continue, Melissa, Please take it off list, and apologise to all of 
> us for wasting our time. 
>   

I will not, however, apologise for wasting the time of people who by
their own decision, read and replied to a message on a self-proclaimed
"community random chit-chat list"

> Granted Michael's email was inflammatory, but it was private, and you should 
> have kept it that way. I did what you did once, and was soundly rebuked, and 
> rightly. Maybe you should look through the archives for he reasons as to why, 
> or just read the CoC, but that is irrelevant. What is really relevant is that 
> you do not attack other list members publically.
>   

I would also like to think that there were measures to avoid offensive
private communications, that did not involve wasting the time of the
Community Council.

I *now* know this was the wrong way to go about this.

As I stated above, I was under belief that what I was doing was bringing
the issue to the community. His email was offensive to me and made me
uncomfortable.

> Sasha
-- 
Sincerely
Melissa Draper

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