On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 03:57:27PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > On 20 Apr 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > By the way, I do not think I am alone in regarding the Policy > > > as a standards document; a quick (informal) poll on IRC showed a > > > wider accord (for what it counts for). > > > > > Folks with time on their hands tend to support measures that control the > > group for the betterment of all without reguard to the desirablility of > > such controls by those who have it imposed upon them. (sorry for the > > tangled sentance) > > Dale, there are plenty of hard-working Debian folks who spend time in the > IRC channel. Richard Braakman, Manoj, Joey Schulze, Joey Hess, Jason > Gunthorpe, Ray "JHM" Dassen, Igor Grobmann... I know I'm forgetting several > -- no denigration of their hard work is intended. > > I think you are mischaracterizing the developers who utilize the IRC > channel, and it does not strengthen your argument. To what extent the > policy manual should be a "guideline", and to what extent it should be > a "standard", is an issue to which IRC has no relevance. > Thank you. That was the point I was so poorly trying to make. No denigration was intended (just a bit of jealousy at not having any spare time myself)
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