Re: Personal Attacks, Power, and the PAB

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Simon,

  I compleatly agree with you here.  Seems that poor Rick is having an
identity problem or just doesn't realize what he is saying.  Or is
lacking is some basic ethics education.  Whichever, I compleatly agree
with you.  Read the post he sent to me privatly.  I responded and sent
it to the list.  He seems to be a bit concerned as to MY stake here.
Well that is his own problem as I see it.  >;)

Simon Higgs wrote:
> 
> Rick,
> 
> >The communication you posted to a public mailing list was private
> >and not for general consumption. I would ask that you refrain from posting
> >such mails again (look up ethics in a dictionary.)
> 
> I'd take a step back on that one Rick. From the paragraph I saw:
> 
> >>By the way . . . Fenello is "testing the waters" as permitted by a recent
> >>amendment to SEC Regulations, to decide whether or not to file an initial
> >>public offering...
> >>                                               ...The FBI may have decided
> >>that Fenello was too small a fry to bother with, but the SEC will not share
> >>that disinterest.
> 
> This goes back to simple basics. Anyone accused of criminal activities
> ("The FBI may have decided that Fenello was too small a fry to bother
> with") must be free to defend themselves. This includes posting the
> original accusation and a defense to that accusation *IN PUBLIC*.
> 
> >You have been a active person on these lists for a while now. I'm sure
> >that many of the PAB are just learning about you and Iperdome. I'll dig up
> >some refrences of your posts from the NEWDOM archives for anyone that
> >would like to make their own observations of personal attacks over the
> >last 18 months.
> 
> Whatever it is Jay has done is really none of your business. Why are you
> taking the Perry Metzger stance of trashing someone's character instead of
> working towards a solution to the issues here? It's so much wasted energy
> and zero productivity. You want to know why Meeks wrote what he wrote?
> Damn! It's because of exactly that attitude throughout the IAHC/iPOC/PAB.
> 
> >The world is still free from where I sit, and I would suggest that anyone
> >interested in doing business with a public company fully research that
> >company as much as possable within the law.
> 
> It doesn't sound very free from where I sit. You're essentially telling us
> that someone's character can be tarred & feathered on a closed/private
> mailing without them being able to defend themselves outside that mailing
> list. The outside world watches the "process" and sees all this. Now do you
> see why the internet community isn't behind the MoU?
> 
> Maybe you'd better take another look at "ethics" in the dictionary.
> 
> BTW, I don't remember you being like this.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Simon
> 
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Regards,
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Jeffrey A. Williams
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Information Eng. Group. IEG. INC. 
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