It sounds like this guy was cut a LOT of slack before finally taking 
this action. Chris, the POV-Ray team and TAG should be commended for the 
deliberate restraint demonstrated during this incident. A lot of other 
sites would either overreact in a knee-jerk fashion or would let things 
go on willy-nilly, which in the long run would only invite chaos.

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Scott Gammans
http://www.scottgammans.com
Ashburn, VA

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Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> In article <408c7d32$1@news.povray.org> , "Jeremy M. Praay" 
> <sla### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> 
> 
>>"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
>>news:408b936b$1@news.povray.org...
>>
>>>It is with regret that this message serves as official notice that IMBJR's
>>>authorization to connect to news.povray.org has been revoked.
>>
>>I'm fairly certain that's what IMBJR wanted...
> 
> 
> Yes, I am fairly certain about it as well.
> 
> Let me take this opportunity to summarise the events that made this action
> on our part necessary.  I would also like to express that we were very
> reluctant to take this action, but we had simply no choice:
> 
> As the reason has not been stated, and some here seem to believe it was due
> to the content of various images, the reason was actually the content of one
> image, a content unacceptable in a public forum open to minors.  It is the
> image that caused the original discussion about unacceptable content.  And
> the initial response of the Chris Cason was to see where it goes.  For the
> majority of users of this server community pressure is sufficient to let
> them behave as a guest on this server, and never has and never will any
> person be banned just because they made one mistake.
> 
> However, IMBJR posted the same content, modified as a GIF again.  This went
> on with several other images.  Those images were not new work, he simply
> took them from his website and posted them here for storage and rejected
> interest in any discussion of them.  At this point Chris Cason had no choice
> but to formally warn him that such behavior is unacceptable for various
> reasons.  This warning was issued with full support from the POV-Team and
> TAG.  As you know the POV-Team and TAG are composed of people from all over
> the world with different backgrounds.  And still we all reached the same
> conclusion that a warning was needed.  The reasons were made clear and IMBJR
> said he would comply.
> 
> So, two days ago he posted the image that caused the original controversy
> again.  This time in bright colors, but the same content of course.  The
> image was removed by us.  The next day he posted it again as he had realised
> the image had been removed.  Without doubt IMBJR was fully aware that
> posting the same image that was deemed inappropriate for posting on this
> server twice before.  As such, he posted it only for the one reason, to
> provoke controversy a third time.  This is not acceptable use of the this
> server, and for this he was banned.
> 
> After two clear warnings.  One from the community, one from the owner of
> this server.
> 
>     Thorsten
> 
> ____________________________________________________
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> e-mail: tho### [at] trfde
> 
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