Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > myriad flamewars and personal insults. Are they not examples of poor > social skills and are they not part of the great memory called the > internet?
To me, there is a big difference in having various flammable discussions, including suggestions to the removal of a persion, in various mailing lists, and having a dedicated repository for such an information. This may be a thin and arbitary difference, I admit, and I'm still thinking about my position on this. > If that person resolved the bad interactions, this would be reflected in > this post. Resolving social issue is a good thing. And the interaction > would contained in this report, not on a list that is usually searched > and cached like google. Yes, resolving an issue is a good thing. But, let me take a real-life example of what would be stored in the BTS/archive: It would contain something like two years worth of flammable mails and various arbitration attempts between a developer and a team (Sven vs. d-i), with no real solution. Now, do you feel that it would be OK to have that flame war available to a prospective employer of Sven? At the moment a prospective employee would have to wade through loads of Internet pages (Google search for "Sven Luther Debian" does not return anything negative). -- * Sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology (T.P) * * PGP public key available @ http://www.iki.fi/killer * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
