Re: Avoid -private if possible
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On 03-01-2005 12:31, Christian Kurz wrote:
> Hi Jonas,
>
> On [30/12/04 18:40], Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>
>>On 30-12-2004 17:56, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan wrote:
>
>
>>[bla bla some stuff posted on the closed debian-private mailinglist]
>
>
>>>[Nothing in this email is private, please feel free to quote elsewhere.]
>
>
>>Why then post it to -private in the first place?
>
>
> Would you mind explaining to people in _private_ e-Mail why there e-mail
> doesn't belong on -private in your opinion?
I certainly will. Thanks for making me aware that my post is not well
understood.
I dare quote your personal email in public, to best explain my reason to
be even more verbose in this matter (as I fear some find my very opening
my mouth annoying).
> While sometimes discussions
> on -private can be annoying because they might belong to some other
> list, your e-Mails to -private like this one are also annoying.
> Especially if your e-Mails are not related to the content of the
> previous e-Mail but just to point out that the e-mail should have been
> posted to another list. Please consider using _private_ _personal_
> e-Mails to inform people about this and maybe discuss with them why
> there e-Mail should be posted somewhere else in your opinion.
I learn a lot from watching fellow developers. Sure, I also read the
docs, policies and guidelines, but my main source of inspiration is that
of the crowd.
So, if some behaved badly, and were only told so in private, their acts
would seem perfectly ok to others on the list.
If the error was well-known to all but the wrong-doer then pointing out
the error on the list would be irrelevant noise.
It does not seem "well-know to all" that -private is only for messages
that must not be revealed outside the secret society of Debian. So I do
my best to make that well-known.
- - Jonas
This mail deliberately cross-posted to both -private and -project, as it
is in no way private but I want to reach all on -private as promised
(for some weird undocumented reason we are suscribed only to -private by
default).
- --
* Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt
* Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/
- Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm
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