[Values-ethics] Talking about Values, Ethics and Netiquette (whom are you hoping to take in, Mr Ebbeler?)

[VROs United World Vision Festivals on Global Issues]

Dear Claude,

You say that your country is full of luddites. It seems the case.

Anyway, today a lot of emails went out (the same you've received). After I received your first mail I sent it also to our contacts within the UN, the World Bank, the University of Amsterdam and some others, just to ask them if they had the same problem you had. I just spoke to the last one in New York. None of them had the problem you had.

I also received some mails from colleagues of yours and myself. It seems that you are sending them your (spam) mail through BCC. Talking about Values, Ethics and Netiquette? 

What we normally would ask you to do is to send us an apology. If you are a man with such high standards, knowledge and ethical feelings then you would do so and you would send it also to those you had sent the first one, apologies to them and give us a copy through cc.

This mail is on its way to those mentioned above, WSIS and our official and/or strategic partners (IBM / MSN / Deloitte).

Sorry about this Claude, but you are not one to be trusted. I hope to hear from you in a more positive way the next time. Who knows, maybe then you can work together with some university's on behalf of the UWVF and experience closely what it is becoming and is achieving in the field of ICT R&D (and not only for spoilt-by-broadband ICT-illiterates).

Regards,
Robert  

your 

> Dr Ebbeler
> 
> You wrote:
> 
> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 5:21 PM
> Subject: It seems you do not know how works/ Re: [Values-ethics] Whom are
> you hoping to take in, Mr Ebbeler?
> 
> Dear Claude,
> It seems you do not know how works. If you would have asked politely most
> likely I would have given you some straight answers. You should do something
> about that temperament of yours my friend. It helps a lot if you try some
> diplomacy.
> Regards,
> Robert Ebbeler
> PS its Dr Ebbeler not Mr.>>
> 
> I know all too well how it works, and this is precisely why I immediately
> warned the Values and Ethics mailing list. Not sending 722k e-mails to
> people one doesn't know is basic courtesy, at times called netiquette when
> applied to the internet and e-mail. Not sending twice the same info as heavy
> attachments is another rule of basic courtesy.
> 
> At first glance I thought you were the usual well-meaning,
> spoilt-by-broadband luddite. I know how these spoilt luddites work and am
> patient with them: my country is full of them, especially in power
> positions, and also among theorizers of "ICT4D", so I have no choice but
> being patient with them.
> 
> But you come from the Netherlands, an ICT-literate country. And the keywords
> in the head of your site showed  that you are anything but ICT-illiterate.
> Your http://www.6xa.nl/ site proves that you are actually an ICT pro. You
> deliberately chose to break the basic rules of online communication. You are
> deliberately sending microsoft files while claiming your project's
> commitment to open-source.
> 
> Unless you were banking on impressing people theoretically interested in ICT
> for development but with little actual knowledge of practical rules in ICT
> use,  with your huge powerpoint (so nice to play with) and word (easier to
> print) attachments,  why on earth did you not just write "For further
> information, please visit www.thevirtualrockoperas.org " to the text of your
> e-mail?
> 
> I tried: it would have reduced your e-mail to 4k instead of 722k. So you
> blew up 180.5 times the needed size for your e-mail, with no apparent
> justification. Don't be surprised if people start looking for hidden
> motives.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Claude Almansi
> 
> 
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