I think emails of this nature should be considered as we deal with a user who indulges in them.
Fred
From: "steven l. rubenstein" rubenste@ohiou.edu Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:43:06 -0500 To: wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Advice about an abusive editor?
Some time ago I criticized user:Xed on his/her talk page for insulting a notable wikipedian without justification.
Xed responded on my talk page with "Fuck off you little shit" -- you can see the brief exchange that ensued here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Slrubenstein#Small_mind
Now, normally I reach a point where I am able just to ignore such irritants. But when someone stops writing on my talk page, and e-mails me directly, I kinda feel they have crossed a line. I just received this e-mail:
X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2 Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:46:13 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: tingxi.wikimedia.org: apache set sender to wiki@wikimedia.org using -f To: Slrubenstein rubenste@ohiou.edu Subject: Cunt From: Xed xed2507@yahoo.co.uk X-Mailer: MediaWiki interuser e-mailer X-PMX-Version: 4.7.0.111621, Antispam-Engine: 2.0.2.0, Antispam-Data: 2005.2.15.12 (pm8) X-PMX-Information: http://www.cns.ohiou.edu/email/filtering/ X-PMX-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0'
It's interesting to read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunt that "North Americans generally find the word more offensive than the British and Australians; in Britain, unlike in America, "cunt" can be used as a jovial term of endearment in specific contexts" As someone quotes on my talk page, "Thank God it was the convicts and not the puritans". What a sycophantic cunt your are. Love,Xed
I'd appreciate it if someone would either calm me down, or suggest what kind of disciplinary actions may be appropriate at this point.
Thanks,
Steve
Steven L. Rubenstein Associate Professor Department of Sociology and Anthropology Bentley Annex Ohio University Athens, Ohio 45701 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l