[CC list trimmed] At 2025-05-21T15:04:20+0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Andrew M.A. Cater writes, in an official statement of the Community Team: > > Taking private communications and moving them onto public lists > > without consent is unacceptable at any time. > > I would to clarify/contest this. This rule, as stated, is very > broad, unqualified, and absolute.
At 2025-05-21T10:02:44-0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > > Andrew M.A. Cater writes, in an official statement of the Community Team: > >> Taking private communications and moving them onto public lists > >> without consent is unacceptable at any time. > > > I would to clarify/contest this. This rule, as stated, is very > > broad, unqualified, and absolute. > > Yeah, I agree. This has been a rule of thumb for as long as I've been > on the Internet and I've always been uncomfortable with the absolute > version. I've also seen it abused from time to time for nearly as > long as I've been on the Internet. It's sometimes appropriate and even > necessary to publish private communications. Seconded. I have complained before about the poor quality of communications from the Community Team. I do so again to observe that the correlation between that poor quality and the team's penchant for broad, unqualified, absolute, overbearing, condescending, and paternalistic transmissions and the prohibition of disclosure they unilaterally impose on others with said communications is not a coincidence. The Community Team as now constituted is corrosive to collegiality. Regards, Branden
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