On Sun, 31 May 2009 16:52:23 -0700 Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:42:46PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > > On Wed, 27 May 2009 11:37:56 +0200 Steve Langasek wrote: [...] > > > Better yet: he should recognize that the reason he needs to add all these > > > acronyms is because his posts are an inappropriate use of this mailing list > > > and not productive, and stop posting. > > > You're not new to such impolite replies, and I don't think your > > reputation benefits from them. > > I think it has no negative impact on my reputation with anyone whose > opinion I value. > > Which most explicitly does not include you. > > You use this mailing list as your own personal soap box for advancing > positions that have been *rejected* by Debian. No, I participate in the discussions of this mailing list because I care about Free Software and the Debian Project. When an opinion is asked to debian-legal participants about something, I feel to be allowed to provide my *own* opinion, while explicitly saying that it's not necessarily *identical* to the (current) official Debian position. When I disagree with a decision by the Debian Project or by the FTP masters, I think I am allowed to express my disagreement. > That is not acceptable. Says who? The description of this mailing states: "Discussions about legality issues such as copyrights, patents etc. This list is not moderated; posting is allowed by anyone." > The purpose of this list is to help Debian developers and upstreams > understand Debian's policy for the main archive, and as a forum for Debian > as a whole to work on refining that policy. Exactly: how can that policy be refined, if absolutely *no* disagreement with current practice is allowed? > You don't appear to contribute > anything to Debian except the crap you spew on this mailing list. Please search better. I report bugs, I send patches from time to time, I've recently become co-maintainer of a package, ... It's not much, I admit. But the attitude of people like you has been constantly discouraging me from getting more involved in the Project. > You are > therefore *not* part of Debian. "IANADD" disclaimers do *not* excuse you > abusing this list in order to shove your opinions down others' throats, when > you know damn well that the project does not agree with you. > > So shut up already. Again this snob attitude: "you are not part of Debian, so shut up". How open minded... > > > Anyway, if disagreeing with FTP masters and expressing one's own > > opinion (while *explicitly* clarifying that what is expressed is just > > one's own opinion, and not necessarily the official Debian position) is > > an "inappropriate use of this mailing list", then I suggest that the > > list is shut down as soon as possible and that debian-legal@l.d.o is > > turned into a forwarder to ftpmaster@d.o ... > > I would be much happier with having debian-legal shut down than with > continuing a status quo that permits opinionated hangers-on like you to > repeatedly twist the discussion to suit your personal agenda. I am being accused of "inappropriate use of this mailing list" and of "twisting the discussion" by a person whose only contribution to the present thread consists of two rude ad hominem attacks. Oh, the irony... -- New location for my website! Update your bookmarks! http://www.inventati.org/frx ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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