Re: distributed moderation of mailinglist

2020-02-26 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On February 26, 2020 3:05:22 PM UTC, Charles Plessy wrote: > >I sometimes wonder if adding a random delay of 1 to 24 h for every >message (I mean: rolling the dice again for each message) on -project, >-devel, -vote and similar lists could help to make us more resilient to >trolling and at the

Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team

2020-02-19 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On 2/19/20 2:00 PM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: At the risk of poking a little fun at recent US politics: this _really really_ reads as a /quid pro quo/. Not really; a quid pro quo there means more than the literal "something for something". Otherwise going to the grocery store and buying an a

Re: One-Time Pad Encryption Software to Debian Repository

2019-10-15 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Debian only includes free software, which CC-BY-NC-ND is not. It's also (like all the Creative Commons licenses) not intended for software. https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-commons-license-to-software These issues are likely to keep most Linux distros (not just Debian) fro

Automatically marking downloaded files (was Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main)

2017-12-05 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On 12/05/2017 03:48 PM, Diane Trout wrote: I would love for files downloaded via a web browser or email client to be marked as having come from the Internet. (Major bonus points if a sync tool like nextcloud can keep files I generated labeled separate from ones my coworkers made) Chromium (by d

Re: Donations

2006-06-11 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > The point of the exercise is to avoid having so many organizations and > so many bank accounts that we would need three professional accountants > just to keep track. Perhaps I should have worded it as 'no more than one > such organization shall be active per country'; [...

Re: Proposal: The future of the Debian NM process

2006-05-19 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: No. Many applicants simply package stuff no one installs on their system. And even if some people do, depressingly few people report bugs they notice - in most cases, they simply remove the package and use something else. Well, if no one installs it, it doesn't ma

Re: Proposal: The future of the Debian NM process

2006-05-17 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: I agree with a lower limit, but I think it would be better of to specify it in terms of "certain number of uploads" as opposed to "some time limit": I might have done 1 upload and just wait a 3 months, or I could have done several uploads over that same period

Re: New Front Desk members

2005-01-30 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 07:27:26PM +, Helen Faulkner wrote: > Please note that being an AM is a very important and responsible job. > Please treat your applicants in a nice and friendly manner. If you have > any questions about how to proceed with an applicant, please don't > hesitate to cont

Re: A possible approach in "solving" the FDL problem

2003-08-14 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wednesday, Aug 13, 2003, at 03:17 US/Eastern, Branden Robinson wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 07:51:56PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Because this isn't the forum for discussing the removal of non-free? And because the discussion about removing non-free has to wait until the shel