On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Bill Humphries wrote: > I am writing because my partner just informed me that a threat of > violence against women in the Debian development community was > posted to the debian-project list. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2006/06/msg00143.html > > The Debian community needs to know what you are doing about that threat.
The event to which you are refering occured in 2006 from a known troll; the ability to post to the mailing lists by that individual (and as many accounts as were known about) were eliminated, and yahoo was contacted to terminate the accounts. To the best of my knowledge, law enforcement was not contacted because we had no specific information to provide. > What I hope you do is that you make it clear to the debian community > that such statements and beliefs will not be tolerated, and the > people who make such threats will be exposed and banned from the > community. The individual in question does not speak as a member of the Debian community, and certainly not as someone whose vitriol the project has anything to do with. In fact, the project was the target of the screed. > Fix this, it is not a laughing matter. It cerainly wasn't, which is why it was resolved within hours of its occurance *three* years ago. Don Armstrong -- PowerPoint is symptomatic of a certain type of bureaucratic environment: one typified by interminable presentations with lots of fussy little bullet-points and flashy dissolves and soundtracks masked into the background, to try to convince the audience that the goon behind the computer has something significant to say. -- Charles Stross _The Jennifer Morgue_ p33 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
