The good guys win one for a change, and the woman who brought HP down has been banned from the UCU mailing list on which she linked to an article on convicted felon David Duke’s website.
Time for one of my universally popular interventions,” Waddup wrote. “I have received complaints from list members about the linking by another member to a Web site which contains highly offensive, racist material.
“I acted to suspend the posting rights of the list member as soon as the union became aware of the link, and having reviewed this and previous conduct; I have now suspended their list membership indefinitely,” he wrote.
Of course, the list is still full of anti-Semites masquerading as anti-Zionists, but it’s a start.
Still, it’s nice to actually win one once in a while.