[members-discuss] Regarding Elad Cohen's nomination and emails

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 12:50:30PM +0200, Cynthia Revstrm wrote:
>AFAIK there are no WG chairs of members-discuss and members-discuss is a
>mailing list that the RIPE NCC hosts to let RIPE NCC members discuss RIPE
>NCC membership related topics, so I think they certainly have business
>enforcing people to be professional on this mailing list.

see my reply to Geert above, I didn't get into *this* list as it
is indeed managed by the NCC.

>
>I would also like to add that Elad has multiple times on different mailing
>lists ignored the WG chairs.

Then the WG chairs already have the power to moderate list
subscribers and have (rarely) done so in the past.

>Also this is happening across a variety of RIPE/RIPE NCC mailing lists that
>are all hosted by the RIPE NCC and as such I think it is their business to
>keep them to a professional standard.

Maybe the wg lists should then be hosted elsewhere. It's not
generally considered acceptable for a hoster to moderate mailing
lists it hosts for a "customer".

>There should not be a long list of people, but when someone is behaving
>unprofessionally, calling people "coconut", being defamatory towards the
>RIPE NCC, ignoring WG chairs, I do think that they have gone too far and
>everything has a limit.
>Like we wouldn't allow someone to send sales emails to the mailing list as
>an example, aka limits on what is allowed.

Either case is for the WG chairs do decide, *not* the NCC which
is only the hoster for those lists.

members-discuss is of course different as it is "owned" by the NCC.

rgds,
Sascha Luck