I believe I remember the individual you are talking about. Many of his posts were unpleasant as you describe; he was practically begging to be "sanctioned". While the latest round of postings were strongly critical, they were civilized and professionally communicated for the most part. Blocking these people without any legitimate reason or warning is an over-reaction, and comes across as a draconian measure that actually serves to support the original poster's complaints. This sort of thing is very petty behavior for a professional organization. Really bad PR for IPC. This is playing out like a prime example of personal/corporate "politics", for which I have zero patience. With all the garbage happening in the rest of the Universe, do we really need another source of stress? I don't. So, if I happen to get banned for this post....*shrug* Ron James, CID ________________________________ From: Ted Tontis [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 9:57 AM Subject: Forum rules I received an email from two designers that state they have been blocked from posting on the forum. I went to the IPC website to look up the forum rules for verification on what is acceptable to post and what isn't acceptable. I couldn't find anything that states rules/grounds for removal from the list http://www.ipc.org/ContentPage.aspx?pageid=4.3.15 Can someone provide me with what are the grounds for removal from the list? I remember sometime back there was a designer that liked to rattle the cages of most people on this list as well as TN. He would continue poke people and call them stupid, I believe that the forum admin warned him of his inappropriate postings before he was removed for making the same type of postings. I am not looking to get booted off the list I am trying determine what the rules are to avoid being removed. I also understand that this forum is sponsored by IPC so in the end it is their decision. Regards, Ted Tontis CID Quality Engineer Borg Indak, Inc. 701 Enterprise Dr Delavan, WI 53115 C 262-949-8887 P 262-245-3060 F 262-728-3788 [log in to unmask] www.borgindak.com <http://www.borgindak.com/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- DesignerCouncil Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF DesignerCouncil To temporarily stop/(start) delivery of DesignerCouncil for vacation breaks send: SET DesignerCouncil NOMAIL/(MAIL) Search previous postings at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext. 2815 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DesignerCouncil Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF DesignerCouncil. To temporarily stop/(restart) delivery of DesignerCouncil send: SET DesignerCouncil NOMAIL/(MAIL) Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------