<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On Oct 5, 2018, at 5:17 AM, Bill Woodcock <<a href="mailto:woody@pch.net" class="">woody@pch.net</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="">On Oct 4, 2018, at 21:44, Jo Rhett <<a href="mailto:jrhett@netconsonance.com" class="">jrhett@netconsonance.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Bill, stop playing this nonsense. I referred to and respect your history, your attempt to play innocent is contemptible.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">This exchange was, at first, mildly amusing. I thought that you were, perhaps, just in a foul mood, and that a Socratic dialog might lead you out of it. But your replies are non-responsive, and this is becoming tedious. Time to wrap it up. <br class=""><br class="">You’ve made nonspecific and unsubstantiated allegations of wrongdoing. <br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I was very explicit. You attempted to distract my very explicit, clearly phrased statement with a wide array of unrelated, never-mentioned topics. I referred to that debate tactic as contemptible, which is a characterization of a practice well known and proscribed in all professional venues.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="">You have two alternatives which will not lead to my asking the mailing list committee to sanction you for ToS violation:<br class="">Either state your allegation clearly and substantiate it, or withdraw it and apologize. <br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I can find no evidence of a ToS for this mailing list. There is an AUP at <a href="https://www.arin.net/participate/mailing_lists/aup.html" class="">https://www.arin.net/participate/mailing_lists/aup.html</a>. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I take this threat very seriously and plan to submit a full, detailed response. I will supply a complete outline of my statements and Bill's responses and how I understand their compliance (and not) within the AUP, as soon as I have the time to create this documentation (not likely today).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I can demonstrate that I have not wilfully violated or attempted to violate the AUP, but that Bill has done so repeatedly and tactically, and has even committed several violations in this fabricated complaint.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'll submit my response to <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><a href="mailto:mlc@arin.net" class="">mlc@arin.net</a> within 5 business days.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">
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