<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 14px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Dear community,</font></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 14px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">On Friday, 22 July 23:01:46 CEST 2022 an extremely offensive and inflammatory message was sent to the mailing list.</font></span></div><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></font><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 14px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">By 23:57 CEST, I made a call to moderate the list over the weekend till Monday 25th of July. At the time there were already two responses to the offensive email calling out the original sender's behaviour. </font></span></div><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></font><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 14px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">At the time of drafting this email there were no other responses in the moderation queue.</font></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 14px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 14px;" id="docs-internal-guid-76b36c4f-7fff-a9e7-8e40-ee5929d20611" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">In the meantime, I have been in communication with the RIPE Chair team on the matter and have asked the IT team to look into the possibility of removing the offensive text from the archives and any reference to it in the replies. </font></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Obviously the email has made its way to your inboxes so I ask you to make sure to remove any reference to offensive text in your replies. </span></div><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></font><div style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 14px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Regards</font></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 14px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Hisham Ibrahim</font></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 14px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Chief Community Officer </font></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 14px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">RIPE NCC</font></span></div></div></div></div></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 23 Jul 2022, at 00:29, Randy Bush <<a href="mailto:randy@psg.com" class="">randy@psg.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Return-path: <<a href="mailto:ripe-list-bounces@ripe.net" class="">ripe-list-bounces@ripe.net</a>><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">i would have hoped that moderation of the ripe list would have kept such<br class="">pathetic and disgusting racist sickenss off list.<br class=""><br class="">randy<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">-- <br class=""><br class="">To unsubscribe from this mailing list, get a password reminder, or change your subscription options, please visit: <a href="https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/ripe-list" class="">https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/ripe-list</a><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>