[TriLUG] appropriate use of privileged access to TriLUG-owned resources

[Kevin Otte]

On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 03:46:50PM -0400, Magnus wrote:

> Mr. Otte has for whatever personal reasons decided he would like to /ignore
> me on the #trilug channel, which is of course his privilege.

And what does it say to you, Mr. Hedemark, that not only I, but most (if not
all) of the currently sitting Steering Committee has you on /ignore as well?

> What I believe is not his privilege is to misuse his administrative
> privileges to the TriLUG servers to also get the channel bot to ignore my
> requests for the services it provides.

I believe it is in my pervue to place a ban on resources to those I feel are
abusing them.  In this case, the ban was temporary.  I did this with the
full knowledge of at least one member of the sitting SC.

> I proved this out in #trilug today that the bot was ignoring me, and when
> I raised the issue, Mr. Otte gave the beauracratic response along the
> lines of "I am the system administrator.  If you don't like it, take it up
> with the system administrator."

First of all, I believe the word you are looking for is "democratic" not
"bureaucratic".  Second of all, I do not believe you would comprehend a
democratic response if it was presented to you.

I did not claim I was the SA.  I am simply responsible for the upkeep of
this particular service.  I am no longer the SA.  I report to the current
SA.  I referred you to him as I felt you had no interest in listening to
what I had to say.

> Mr. Otte is on a little bit of a power trip

Interesting how the performance of one's duties is almost always seen as a
"power trip" when you don't happen to agree with them.

> and I feel that if he can't handle the responsibility of administrating
> the TriLUG services to its members in a fair and equitable fashion

If anyone else was acting in the same manner as you, I would not hesitate in
performing the same action.

> that his privileges should be removed immediately.

I eagerly await the Committee's decision on this matter.  

-- 
Kevin Otte, N8VNR
nivex at nivex.net
http://www.nivex.net/

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