On Fri, Dec 04 2009, Russell Coker wrote: > On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> wrote: >> Nothing wrong with that. But when people are told to shut up >> since Supe Speshul Sekrit discussions are going one betwen Really Ver >> Important People, and the people partaking in the open discussions are >> not important enough to be heard, well, that is a horse of a very >> different color. > > They were asked to take it to private email - which is not the same as > telling them to shut up.
Since it is shutting down public discussion, I fail to see the distinction. > Is there any reason to expect that anyone who wanted to join the > off-list discussion would be excluded if they had sensible things to > say? How would I know about this so called discussion? What if I might have things to add to it, after listening in for a bit? Who is the target audience for suvh off list discussion? Only people who have participated earlier? (I mean, I participated, and I have had no emails sent to me. And I even contributed to the whole python policy thing -- one of the documents people were bandying about in an earlier incarnation of this discussion was written by me). manoj -- The difference between us is not very far, cruising for burgers in daddy's new car. Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org