On 20-08-2021 01:12, Steve McIntyre wrote: > wea...@riseup.net wrote: >>On 16-08-2021 11:29, lou wrote: >>> Andrew, i thought you r moderator because you post monthly list guideline >>> >>> and you speak kindly with some authority when some list user deviate >> >>By reputation, the list is unmoderated, and that's the way it used to >>be. >>It still bears the token title of an unmoderated list but, in reality, a >>small collective of the politically correct have placed it under their >>auspices to moderate it. They have all the rationale, they believe, to >>do so, but this is quite in contradiction with the principles of open >>source, so it's an interesting phenomenon to observe. > > For the avoidance of doubt... > > The debian-user list may be listed as "not moderated", but that just > means that posting is open by default. This mailing list, like all > Debian-hosted mailing lists, is subject to both the Debian mailing > list Code of Conduct and the main Debian Code of Conduct: > > https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct > https://www.debian.org/code_of_conduct > > As Andrew points out in his excellent and helpful regular posting: > > Inappropriate behaviour on the list may lead to warnings; repeated bad > behaviour may lead to temporary or permanent bans for offenders.
And who is it who determines what is `inappropriate'? > If you're trying to label that as "politically correct" then I think > you may need to change your expectations. The "principles of open > source" do not include a free pass to be abusive to others. And, who is being abusive? Building strawmen to knock over does not qualify as cogent argument. Cheers! Harry. -- `Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth'. -- Albert Einstein
