Philip Taylor wrote:
Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
BTW, why would you set followup to "/dev/null"? Yet another way of
gumming up the works? Why are you even here if you are so opposed to
what we do?
Because not only is this current digression completely unrelated
to the focus of this list (i.e., Seamonkey), it is also completely
unrelated to anything Mozilla-specific at all. Since I give my
e-mail in clear in every message, you are perfectly at liberty
to continue the debate off-list if you so wish, as per the guidance
from the list moderator :
I purposely choose not to keep my views on the purpose and policies of
the list secret. Nor, I might note, do you.
You might also consider that several other subscribers have weighed in
with views similar to mine, even if they have not explicitly said "what
he said!"
In my view, "the focus of this list" is to provide solutions to
SeaMonkey issues -- on that we probably agree. Keeping those solutions
secret as you propose, or objecting to that secrecy as I do, is
definitely on topic. If your policy prevails, fewer solutions will be
available to our readers, and questions already secretly answered will
be posed repeatedly so other helpers can reinvent those secret
solutions. That hinders the function of the forum.
On 03/11/2013 at 20:01, Chris Ilias wrote (in part, and in response
to another message from you) :
If you do want to post an off-topic message, there are a few things
you can do:
* You can reply to the poster via private email
That boilerplate was sent in response to his calculation that the
proportion of messages he considered off-topic had exceeded 10% of my
overall total. I have no reason to believe he considers this discussion
of list policy off-topic, despite your repeated markings of your own
messages as off-topic.
--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
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