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Re: Privacy and defamation of character on Debian public forums



On 2021-09-25 at 20:00, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 07:51:18PM -0400, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> On Saturday, September 25, 2021 07:43:04 PM rhkramer@gmail.com
>> wrote:

>>> I had to look up the meaning of FAOD.  Are you kidding me?  What
>>> did I do or say to get a response like that?
>>> 
>>> I may have misunderstood which message you were pointing to -- I
>>> was interested in the message that Chuck wrote that prompted all
>>> the criticism.
>>> 
>>> So a misunderstanding about which message we each were talking
>>> about, but FAOD???
>>> 
>>> And if FAOD means what I found on the internet, that must violate
>>> the Debian CoC.
>> 
>> Oops, I may need to apologize -- I googled for FAOD, but in googles
>> own "it knows better" manner, it showed me definitios of FOAD :-(
> 
> I've been assuming it was a typo for FOAD, but I don't know what you 
> said to provoke that reaction.
> 
> If it really was FAOD then I have no idea what it stands for.

rhkramer correctly identified it in the most recent reply: "For
Avoidance of Doubt". It hadn't occurred to me that it wouldn't be
readily recognizable in these circles, or that Google wouldn't find it
easily. (I may actually be more surprised by the latter than by the former.)

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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