On 25/06/2010 07:43 μμ, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I would welcome a new GR to rescind the previous one and revert >> d-private to what it's always been: private. That way we can stop >> worrying about the whole issue and we will no longer run the risk of >> making things public that their authors do not want to be made public. > > +1. Then people wouldn't have to keep putting "this is private" in > messages and could just assume it. If there aren't enough volunteers to > do the work anyway, we're wasting low levels of energy making people aware > of this right now. I agree as well. There's no point in making promises we cannot fulfill; if anything, it makes us look bad.
We should just accept the fact that noone will ever re-read a big pile of old, heated, discussions and vacation notices just to publicize parts of them. The time plus the risk of making a mistake (and the fallout of that) just doesn't worth it. Regards, Faidon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
