On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 05:26:36PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 06:47:13PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > However, as one of my initial actions as DPL, I do intend to submit a > > post to debian-devel-announce with a set of guidelines for people to > > follow when flamewars happen (and when they don't, in order to avoid > > them). > > Why is sending such a mail conditional on you being elected DPL? > > How would the content of this mail differ from such a mail if you sent it as > non-DPL, and why? Consider "Hi, I'm J. Random Developer, and I encourage all of you to abide by these rules" vs "Hi, I'm the DPL, and I encourage all of you to abide by these rules" I don't think the former would work very well; but I believe the latter could. -- The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is trying to fool the system. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html
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