Re: debian-women obscurity, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

[MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com>]

Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> wrote:
> MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com> writes: [...]
> > Not in that sense, but that sense doesn't follow directly from
> > the word "policy". I'd expect someone consistently ignoring it
> > to be corrected, but ICBW.
> It's not policy regardless.  It's a recommendation about what will
> make the list more useful and pleasant.

I refer you to a dictionary, sorry.

> > > If you think this is *wrong*, then why?  Because you have a right to
> > > be responded to no matter what you say, even when you are hostile to
> > > the purposes the list was created for?
> > I'm not hostile to balancing debian's composition.  I'm hostile
> > to discrimination, but I was told that wasn't a list purpose:
> > are you saying it is? Why do you know better than others?

I notice that you do not directly answer any question.

> The list discriminates on the basis of *topic*, but not on the basis
> of the gender of the *contributor*.  Get it?

Why do you think that is the case?