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Nick Lloyd's Website removed by Newcastle Uni
May 16^th, 2006 at 6:39am

You may notice the articles by Nick Lloyd are now showing as unobtainable.

Mr Lloyd was posting on the Newcastle University server, where he was an employee. He made some 'humourous' comments about vegetarians, and a Vegetarian Protest Group (yes, really!) complained.

He has had all of his email and internet access rights stripped from him and the website is down

Be careful what you do on the Internet people!

Pat

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CanDo Interfector Viris Spurii Past Moderator Offline Posts: 1652 New England, USA Gender:	Re: Nick Lloyd's Website removed by Newcastle Uni Reply #1 - May 16^th, 2006 at 10:52am Well, that's sad. Only one thing left to do in that case.... Get them back up on another server, invest a lot of money. Come back thrice as strong. Rope the VPG into court cases and take all of their money
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Reply #2 - May 17^th, 2006 at 3:41pm

Crud,
Luckily I sent a intrested newbie links to his webpages last week.
Not so lucky in that I had saved several of his webpages on my now extinct and Imploded home system.
I do how ever have his slinging webpages as hard copy in my slinging binder
All I Can do is wish that he gets back online soon and may the vegans find beef in thier tofu\

Marc Adkins
I eat beef cause somewhere/sometime that ribeye tried stomping the stuffing outta some poor farm worker and it may have even been me at some point

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You may notice the articles by Nick Lloyd are now showing as unobtainable.

Mr Lloyd was posting on the Newcastle University server, where he was an employee. He made some 'humourous' comments about vegetarians, and a Vegetarian Protest Group (yes, really!) complained.

He has had all of his email and internet access rights stripped from him and the website is down

Be careful what you do on the Internet people!

Pat

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Reply #3 - May 17^th, 2006 at 4:25pm

A bunch of vegans got Lloyd fired? That is a shame.

EDIT, LATER: OK, OK, I do not know that he got fired. I just inferred that if he lost his email and web privileges, he lost his job too. But I do not KNOW that, so don't anybody go getting overly steamed at the vegans.

Stir-frying them will suffice...

I hope that Lloyd has backups of his stuff. Perhaps he can set up again with another internet provider. This is perhaps what he should have done in the first place; they would not have been able to do this were his stuff in his "own" (read, hired with his own money) place instead of in his employer's place. Something for the rest of us to think about...

Lloyd had a link to Slinging.org on his slinging page. Is there a chance he is actually a member here?

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Chaotic Rage Senior Member Offline Vous etes saoul! Posts: 465 Gender:	Re: Nick Lloyd's Website removed by Newcastle Uni Reply #5 - May 17^th, 2006 at 5:45pm If anyone wants the 2 slinging pages on the site Mr. Lloyd had, just PM me. I have them on my hard drive.
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Gun Interfector Viris Spurii Past Moderator Offline Slinging Viking Posts: 1089 The Ozarks of Ark & Mo Gender:	Re: Nick Lloyd's Website removed by Newcastle Uni Reply #7 - May 17^th, 2006 at 7:23pm Leeds_Lobber i know that you are a regular post that does not always sign in. Please sign in. I almost deleted this topic since it was in the wrong articles section. Please sign in or get a membership of some of your topics maybe deleted as spam.
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Reply #8 - May 17^th, 2006 at 8:42pm

Bleeping computer...

OK, I think I know why Leeds_Lobber posts as a guest.

It is because he is absent-minded (maybe even as much so as I am) and he forgets to log in and he reads something interesting and he types up a reply and he posts it and...

The bleeped YABB software says "You gotta sign in first" and he remembers that if he backs out and signs in, YABB will consign what he typed to the Great Bit Bucket in the Sky and he will never remember what wondrous words he typed (he's absent-minded like me, remember?) so he just types in his regular moniker but it gets logged as a guest poster.

"How do I know this?" you ask.

BECAUSE THE SAME BLEEPED THING JUST HAPPENED TO ME!!

Alright, yes, if I wasn't absent-minded it wouldn't have happened, it's ME, not the computer ... grumble.

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Reply #11 - May 18^th, 2006 at 4:43am

Dale is almost spot on - I never bother to log in as I am posting from work, and need to keep my cookies and History as 'clean' as possible.

Nope, Nick was not fired.

In a nutshell he was hosting his site on the University system, as is the right of all Newcastle University lecturers etc.

He posted some (fairly confrontational) philosophical musings, and the Veggies got upset by one of them. Nick pointed out that under the university charter he had a right to freedom of expression on his pages, and the Uni agreed. Case closed.....

Some smartypants looked through the regs, spotted that Nick only has 'visitors' rights and that as such he is not covered by these rights. So they dumped his website.

Shame really, but at the same time maybe a lesson to us all not to be confrontational on the web.... um... like I am sometimes..... oh well...

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Re: Nick Lloyd's Website removed by Newcastle Uni
Reply #12 - May 18^th, 2006 at 3:19pm

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Posted by: Chaotic Rage Posted on: May 17th, 2006, 5:45pm
If anyone wants the 2 slinging pages on the site Mr. Lloyd had, just PM me. I have them on my hard drive.
Posted by: winkleried Posted on: May 17th, 2006, 6:56pm
any chance of running them as an article on this site. might save on bandwidth this way

Marc Adkins

on May 17th, 2006, 5:45pm, Chaotic Rage wrote:
If anyone wants the 2 slinging pages on the site Mr. Lloyd had, just PM me. I have them on my hard drive.

I'd like a copy in case it doesn't come back up. We can certainly mirror them here on the site pending his permission. Email chrios {[at]} rocketmail.com

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