Oxford’s Salsa Society has fought allegations of
dissatisfaction with its President, while a hacker highjacked the
society’s mailing list with members receiving a torrent of
abusive emails. OUSS Committee members have rallied behind their President.
Eva- Maria Dimitriadis said that accusations made by Suraya Jina,
who recently resigned as Treasurer, that President Mark Vincon
had ruined the Society by running it as a dictatorship were
entirely false. Dimitritriadis in fact claimed that Jina had lost
power after the committee was re-organised to make it more
democratic. She said Vincon was popular within the society and
had been an “excellent and extremely accommodating”
President. But, in the fallout to the allegations, a hacker broke into
the society’s mailing list and sent members a series of
foul-mouthed messages under the President’s name warning
them not to read the article in The OxStu in which the
accusations were made. Responses to this resulted in members receiving almost 200
emails. After the society’s unsuccessful attempts to shut
down the list, Oxford’s Computing Services had to withdraw
it and are currently attempting to trace the computer from which
the hacker operated. A new mailing list is being set-up and
members have been sent a profuse apology.ARCHIVE: 5th week TT 2004
Salsa hacked back on right foot
