<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> On 16/06/10 18:10, Alan Pope wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:AANLkTim_ywFcYG8qGLcorLc34FUpbSFX4JmIFgx1SCZ2@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 16 June 2010 08:54, Basil Chupin <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:blchupin@iinet.net.au"><blchupin@iinet.net.au></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Very shortly after I received your private message - and I thank you for posting your concerns publicly here as I asked you to - I also received a message from Alan Pope, Ubuntu Community Council, (whom I do not know) telling me to stop posting "inappropriate text and news to...Sounder". </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I didn't 'tell', and asked politely. </pre> </blockquote> Of course, you were very polite about stating to "stop posting.....". <blockquote cite="mid:AANLkTim_ywFcYG8qGLcorLc34FUpbSFX4JmIFgx1SCZ2@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I must have missed something, but I don't recall having read something to tell me what is appropriate and what is not inappropriate to be posted in the offtopic forum called Sounder. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> The sign up page for sounder links to the Code of Conduct, and I've also sent you a link to that document and the mailing list etiquette page. You may not have seen them before, you have now. </pre> </blockquote> I have indeed now read the references which you sent me while I was having my dinner, and the only thing which I now see which I contravened by posting the other messages other than the one which SpaceGhost complained about are those which fell outside the,  "The sounder mailing list should be used for discussion of subjects of general interest related to Ubuntu, linux, open source or software in general." <blockquote cite="mid:AANLkTim_ywFcYG8qGLcorLc34FUpbSFX4JmIFgx1SCZ2@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Our country's current minister for communications, and whatever, is trying to push onto our internet users a filter, which the ISPs are to install, which would filter out all sorts of things just like the article I posted a reference to. One of the URLs which this proposed filter will filter out is a URL for a dental practice in our northern state of Queensland because....nobody really knows, even the poor dentist doesn't know but because his URL is in the "blacklist" any person who tries to access his site will be stopped from doing so - and that person will be visited by the "authorities" for trying to 'access a porno site' or some such..... </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> This is an international community and whilst the proposed internet laws of one country may be interesting to citizens of another, this article really wasn't an appropriate way of illustrating your point. </pre> </blockquote> Please, why not? Surely such a matter is of interest to all users of internet and users of all versions of all operating systems. What I find rather puzzling is that there is nothing in that article which is of an offensive or obscene material about which 'SpaceGhost' obviously complained. Nevertheless, in the future I am sure that any post which may be posted to this mail list will contain nothing but sanitized and more than innocuous, bland, humorless, material which will get this mail list "a-grooving and a-mooving along" :-) . I certainly shall keep this in mind. <blockquote cite="mid:AANLkTim_ywFcYG8qGLcorLc34FUpbSFX4JmIFgx1SCZ2@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Cheers, Al. </pre> </blockquote>  Kind regards, BC <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. James Madison </pre> </body> </html>