MWEB Abuse Notices Complaint

rwenzori seems to have something rather personal against me and from the glance at a post history is likely somebody who I know from Rhodes University - also seems to have an axe to grind with several other people connected to same. My capacity to imagine conspiracy theories recalls that ol Hershaw is a Rhodes graduate ...

Of course the question he constantly seems to ask - which I simply don't answer as it has been commented on this forum at least once and the query tends to be off topic - is no reading towards my degree is standing in an extend abeyance, the reasons being financial and family rather than anything else. In fact part of the current pile of stuff to sort out should resolve the particulars of the problem as well - it also gives me some leisurely opportunity to wrap up a bit of scholarship I started last year ago whilst visiting the RU law library. If he is interested in my academic career of course the annual research report is probably a good place to look - the 2011 report is out and obviously we are waiting for 2013. So yes I am a mere undergraduate who is published in peer reviewed journals in two different disciplines and has some proficiency in motion proceedings before the superior courts (moving urgent matters through to an order absolute is a learning curve) and who spends more free time on scholarship (and the classicists and etymologists on this forum should appreciate the word play) than the vast majority of academic staff in South African universities who are not employed primarily as researchers.

However this entire strand is off topic and represents a wonderful example of an ad hominem which I've decided to give some response to as a matter of personal privilege.

To give some on topic contribution: One of the reasons I am not just flaring this off to the CCC at ICASA is because I want to cover various grounds on both the existing end user service charter and proposals to the new charter. There are furthermore complications which arise with the ADSL Regulations and their status which have bearing on this. Ultimately I need to apply a section of my mind to various interrelated things and advance a succinct legal argument which is taxing (being unskilled and unqualified as rwenzori seeks to establish) and the faculties to do so (as opposed to other faculties of reason which I am deploying on other things) are presently employed in dealing with a matter that is far more pressing and actually involves my livelihood and when same was not the case the broader LLU issue applied.

Societies progress when people of their own volition do good things and commit their resources and talents to improving things. I believe MyBB as a society largely lives to that requirement. What I cannot understand is a snarky disdain that rwenzori seems to capture, legitimate criticisms (in particular corrections of spelling) are something I welcome but honestly nobody is prejudiced by any time frame issues I may run into as nobody is precluded from acting on their own volition.
 
Thank you for the answer.

Edit: Oh, er, no: you're dreaming, I have no associations wif Rhodes.
 
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:D:D Was thinking something else, but decided it wasnt worth the post ....

C'mon mate, out with your insult. Be a big boy now.

I tell you what. If Paul's efforts achieve his "desired resolution", or bring about Mweb's scrapping of their ridiculous and dishonest AUP throttling, within 9 months of his complaint, I will apologise to him here. If not, then I would say my claims are valid.
 
Off Topic

legitimate criticisms (in particular corrections of spelling) are something I welcome

Don't take this the wrong way - I post minus my customary snarky disdain.

You might check your profile on the Libertarian Party site; particularly the last two sentences. "Dabble" should be "dabbles", and "hope" should be "hopes".

Just a public service post from your local friendly gramer and speling Nazi.
 
Don't take this the wrong way - I post minus my customary snarky disdain.

You might check your profile on the Libertarian Party site; particularly the last two sentences. "Dabble" should be "dabbles", and "hope" should be "hopes".

Just a public service post from your local friendly gramer and speling Nazi.

*grammar and *spelling
 
And why is it that these days anyone voicing a contrary opinion is a "troll" or a "twat"? Try to remember your manners, children.

Yes, that is an interesting point you raise. From my experience of MyBB there is a 'ruling clique' and about their posts you may say nothing without being flamed.

To be honest the letter which is the subject of this post strikes me as a bizarre waste of time... but that's just me. To each their own. We all have our crusades in life.
 
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ISPA finally responds
Dismissing the complaint. I am not going to appeal due to the fact that I have already withdrawn the complaint and have taken it as an ICASA matter. Sadly I am not surprised and am not even bothering today to read the reasoning. I will obviously properly read the reasoning and take the matter further with ICASA.
 
I am not... even bothering today to read the reasoning.

It has some good advice for you:

The complainant’s submissions were lengthy but unstructured and it was difficult for me to determine the nature of the complaint. Furthermore, while the complainant is not a lawyer and cannot be expected to studiously obey what lawyers themselves often break, he would be well advised to remember that quantity of argument is no substitute for quality.
 
Funny two advocates who looked at the argument reached a different conclusion and I find the fact that the adjudicator identified that I am not a lawyer an interesting traversing of information not in evidence.

It is worth setting out here that ISPA have claimed that publication of the findings are not permitted. I have categorically refused to accede to this but naturally a moderator or the site administrator may reasonably do so.
 
I find the fact that the adjudicator identified that I am not a lawyer an interesting traversing of information not in evidence.

Probably on the basis that if it doesn't look like a dog, smell like a dog, woof like a dog, it might not be a dog.
 
@Paul - you wrote too much and MWeb has never throttled anyone unreasonably or unfairly and have never misrepresented their products. When all that MWeb non-sense happened in August, I cancelled and had my share of pain as they turned vengeful and made it extra difficult to release my ADSL line. I think the majority of users impacted by the degradation of service would have left in September or October.

I still have emails from MWeb during this fiasco where I was called an abuser (short of being a criminal) for using 120GB of bandwidth a month in a household of 3 people (all heavy internet users). Either way, with regards to that "MWeb has never misinformed the public", I leave you with this FB page which was still up in August 2013 (the image is actually bigger, but it seems to get scaled down during upload)

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@Paul - you wrote too much and MWeb has never throttled anyone unreasonably or unfairly and have never misrepresented their products. When all that MWeb non-sense happened in August, I cancelled and had my share of pain as they turned vengeful and made it extra difficult to release my ADSL line. I think the majority of users impacted by the degradation of service would have left in September or October.

I still have emails from MWeb during this fiasco where I was called an abuser (short of being a criminal) for using 120GB of bandwidth a month in a household of 3 people (all heavy internet users). Either way, with regards to that "MWeb has never misinformed the public", I leave you with this FB page which was still up in August 2013 (the image is actually bigger, but it seems to get scaled down during upload)

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Yep :D
About sums it up
 
Yep :D
About sums it up

At least you are one of the few who got an official response from ISPA. In cases where their members are at fault, ISPA conveniently chooses not to respond and then ping-pong you until they have completely worn you down - so frame that response and move on.
 
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