> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 07:08:17PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > - I think that we shoud encourage more private replies. For instance, > > "If you want to complain to someone who sent you a carbon copy when > > you did not ask for it, do it privately" (from the current CoC), but also > > for +1 messages, etc. To balance this, we may mention that people > > starting > > and fuelling a long thread would be very welcome to post a summary at > > the end. Le Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:52:42AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : > I disagree with that. First, in our social contract, we encourage > openness, not privacy. In addition to that, sending a reply in private > has several issues: > - People don't see the replies, which tends to result in having the same > argument be repeated. Several times, if all of them reply in private. > This is an issue not only for technical arguments, but also for > "please behave" style of messages. In fact, in the latter case it can > be more problematic, since receiving a high number of such messages > may amount to a mobbing and have the opposite effect from what was > intended.
Hi Wouter, it is all a question of trade-off. On my side, if I stay as busy at work as in the past months, I will soon drop off lists like debian-devel. For the moment I do my best because I expect the volume to decrease once the the post-release enthousiasm flattens. But the "+1", "do not CC me", "you do not behave", "stop shouting", etc. messages are making it harder for me to keep up. I wish they were private. By the way, thank you for answering to many people in a single message. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130522230232.gb4...@falafel.plessy.net
