* Goswin von Brederlow (brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) wrote: > Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes: > > Requiring the ftp-masters to be the ones to say what's going on is just > > being pedantic. Personally I don't care where the information about the > > status of things comes from provided that it comes from *somewhere* and > > is reasonably accurate. I realize some people continually bring up "but > > you weren't wearing your ftp-masters hat!" but I think that if the > > information gets out in a reasonable manner from a reliable source that > > complaint will be ignored by everyone but the complainer. > > The problem is that the information getting out is from people who > hear other people without their ftp-master hat say such and such on > a side comment. > > The information is sketchy or private. My point was that, provided the information is made public and it's understand by the ftp-master or whomever that it's going to be made public, I don't have a problem with the initial receipt of information being to a person instead of to a list. Stephen
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