On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 06:37:32PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > I propose that Debian developers make reasonable efforts to resolve > disputes off-list before proposing general resolutions of a personal > nature. Michael was asked many times, on and off-list, to stop sending unsolicited emails. His response was initially that no one should be able to opt out, because DDTS was good for the Debian Project, therefore his emails must be good (fallacious reasoning -- and if you don't believe me, read the debian-devel list archives). After pressure was applied, he implemented a crude opt-out policy which didn't work -- many maintainers continued to get unsolicited mail from him. You'll note that his automatic mails started over a month ago. My proposed General Resolution was far from the first attempt to get him to stop. He continues to assert on debian-devel that he should have the right to send unsolicited, automatic mails with a default policy of having every maintainer subscribed to his list. Many of the people in support of his actions do not appear to understand that it is the automatic, unsolicited emails with an "opt-out" (as opposed to "opt-in") policy that is being objected to, not the operation of a translation tracking server. Instead, they assert that people who don't like receiving these automatic, unsolicited mails from Michael "HATE i18n". I trust it is not necessary to explain why this assertion is utterly fallacious. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Please do not look directly into branden@debian.org | laser with remaining eye. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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