From: Tony Belding <tlbelding@htcomp.net>
Date: Sun Oct 14, 2001  07:48:01  AM US/Central
To: snout@ctrl-c.liu.se
Subject: A Serious Problem

I need to discuss with you something very serious.  Winged has one again
removed my character from SPR.  Worse, he sent a slanderous latter to my
ISP in which he falsely claimed that I had committed "flagrant and
repeated violations of the rules that we set forth for the use of this
service".  Being unfairly banned is bad enough, but when a SPR wizard
writes to my ISP making such false statements, that is treading into the
realm of a legally actionable offense.

I'm sure you are well aware that I have never violated SPR's rules.  As
far as I can tell, every supposed offense that I was accused of on SPR was
either something I did not actually do (such as stealing Arian's code or
harassing him) or something that was not actually against SPR's rules
(such as speaking out against the wizard abuses).

If you allow Winged to slander people in the name of administrating SPR,
you may be opening both yourself and SPR's host site to legal liability.

I also want to make this point: I did not 'hack' into SPR in any way, nor
attempt to hide my identity.  I requested a character from a helpstaffer
in the normal way, using my same name and address as before.  During the
time I was on SPR, nobody I met -- including yourself -- voiced any
objections to my presense.  I met a lot of my old friends, they were happy
to hear from me.  I did not cause any trouble, nor violate any rules.  Of
the hundreds of players who use SPR, it appears only a couple object to me
being there -- for reasons still unclear to me -- but since they happen to
be wizards, they get their way.  This is grossly unfair, and I will never
stop protesting it.

   -- Tony Belding  (aka Zinn)