Re: Nelix (was: Re: [PLUG] surge projectors - Follow up)

[Jeff Abrahamson <abrahj01@molbio.sbphrd.com>]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 11:37:29AM -0400, Charles Stack wrote:
> I said I would shut about it but somebody challenged me.  I was just
> clarifying how the law would probably view this action.
> 
> It's nice that everyone is so willing to forgive Mr. Felix for his lack of
> judgement.  Forgiveness is nice.  But, in my book, that doesn't excuse what
> he did. Wait until your children get that kind of garbage and see how you
> feel then.

This could start a major off-topic flame war. Suffice it to say I
disagree with you.


> BTW, reread his apology and the text and subject of the original message.
> He may be sorry for what he did, but the apology doesn't jive with the
> original message.  If I can quote -
> 
> Subject: [PLUG] surge projectors
> Re: "a pix for your eyes only - below "
> 
> The offending material was then attached.  What did he really mean to send
> if not this image?

Probably he meant to send to someone else, not to the list.

I can think of a number of ways that his gaffe could have happened,
few of which are evil. Assuming he didn't mean to send us all porn,
there's still

- bad mail client that let him say reply when he meant new

- near alias that unfortunately looked like plug (plug vs
  pulg, I dunno).

- multiple compose windows open at once, got confused about which one
  he was working on

I'm sure we could find others.

The point is that this happened once and he apologized. Ostracism and
punitive action don't help him learn and don't help change that some
people were offended.

Have you ever been a sysadmin and hosed a machine? If you'd done it
intentionally, you probably would have been fired. Same if you
repeated. But if it just happens once, and you didn't lose all the
backups with it, and you admit you goofed up (kid safe phrasing
there), you probably got away with ignominy and a painful lesson.

-- 
 Jeff Abrahamson
 610/270-4845
 abrahj01@molbio.sbphrd.com


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