> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Erik Reuter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Verzonden: maandag 22 juli 2002 12:37 > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: Re: Beware off-list conspiracies!
> > So, may I ask you to explain why at least one of the Listowners (and > > one who has done a hell of lot for the list over the years) was not > > informed about this, let alone invited to participate? > > I assume because you aren't going to be a listowner on the new list. Irrelevant. Unless they started testing just three days ago, it started before people got pissed over my posting a subscriber list and starting demanding that I be removed as listowner. > But that, in my opinion, is not sufficient to justify their discussing > important list matters in secret. You should have an input on that, as > should everyone else on this list. It is really just elitism, which > they no doubt justify to themselves by saying that letting some people > on the list no about it would simply cause arguments or bad feelings. > > I think it is good of these unnamed people to work on getting a > hardware and software setup working for the list. But I think they are > being imprudent and elitist in failing to curtail secret discussions > relevant to the list philosophy on this "test" list. Shocking and perhaps unexpected as it may be, I must agree with Erik on this. Discussing list-related matters with only a small select group of people reeks of elitism. Maybe it *is* not elitism, but it does have that very specific smell to it. Transparency? What transparency? Jeroen "Brin-L Scapegoat And Doormat" van Baardwijk _________________________________________________________________________ Corrupted-World-of-Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
