Clarification and Apology
As my Open Forum public apology posts make clear, I made a bad lapse of judgement in anger, frustration, and fatigue. Unlike a number of smaller persons here, I promptly and publicly apologized.
Yes you did. I commend you for that.
The constant refrain is "he was asked not to something ever again".
There's one slight problem with that story.
It's not true.
Nobody said "don't use the list address for website access registration".
After thorough review of all of the relevent documents, I agree. And since this is >my< read of the prior situation and largely the subject of my posts...
I apologize for my mis-statement of prior events.
What >actually< happened is Yaz was the first to respond in the Aberdeen incident in December. He did so >wrongly<, by hijacking the account until an explanation from Karsten was given.
The "Aberdeen Incident" as I shall call it, was the first time that the list was hit with a confirmation email...that the email address was being used to confirm enrollment for web content from Aberdeen.
And no...(note my apology)...in no following mail was Karsten directly asked to "not do it again". What were offered were 2 very simple suggestions...one from Brad and one from Peter. Both were extremely reasonable.
Brad's suggestion, use an alternate email address for this activity.
Peter's suggestion, ask first.
Fast forward 11 months.
The list is hit with 2 more confirmation emails. Obviously neither "suggestion" was taken....becasue the list address was used and there was no prior email from K saying "expect this".
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There is the history.
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Now I have read Karsten's reasons for doing what he did.
THANK YOU KARSTEN FOR THIS EFFORT.
While I am perfectly capable of signing up for my own content, the fact that you have taken your personal time to consolidate a list of available resources with common login procedures is indeed commendable.
It would have been nice if I had seen that explanation 11 months ago. Indeed, if you had stated that as your intention prior to the "Aberdeen Incident", perhaps the path could have been clarified and all of this could have been avoided.
What I have noticed in both incidents is that you lost your temper...both times.
And now I have a better understanding of why this happened. You honestly felt you were doing us a favor.
And again, I commend you for taking this initiative.
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What I don't understand is how this has morphed into som big deal about "slandering my good name" or "nobody asked me too" .
I was trying to interject a small not of sanity..."why not use an alternate email address".
Considering it was suggested once..and that you had access to these resources...I thought it would have been fairly simple. But, according to your supporters, I'm an idiot for even suggesting it.
And so, I suppose, I am.
I guess I'll have to live with that.
