My perception is that Dave does sincerely care about Debian, even if he expresses it poorly.
I placed him on "digest mode" on the mailing lists a while back, because several developers requested that I take some action about his noisy and non-constructive messages. "Digest mode" means that postings from a particular person are collected into a digest and posted as one message, to reduce the volume of postings without censoring the message. Debian-devel is the list read by the Debian developers, and I chose that list for the posting of digests because all of the decision-makers for the project should be reading it. Dave operates the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list, where his postings are always welcome. Of course, Dave can circumvent the "digest mode" on the official Debian lists by changing his posting address, and he has recently done so. Do not fear that I will be unduly effected by his messages. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .