Hello, On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 03:49:13PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On 12/21/23 14:27, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > Posting well-intentioned private replies back to the list is not > > appropriate. > > Please clarify how the Debian Community Team wishes us to respond to the > following use-case: > > 1. User A posts to the list. This post may start or continue a thread. > > 2. User B replies to #1 directly to user A. All content is suitable for > the list. There is no statement of "off-list", "private", etc.. A > reasonable mailing list reader would conclude that the reply was intended > for the list, but was send off-list due to human error.
We are not robots. We all make human errors (as opposed to robot errors). I think you have mostly answered your own question with the framing of "A reasonable mailing list reader". The point is if you reply on-list to private mail that you think is fine and it turns out that you included something that was personal, people might get offended and that's on you, so if you are acting reasonably you'd like to minimise that, so I think it's self-solving and you don't need this documented in a state machine. In my opinion if someone makes a good faith error they shouldn't get too badly punished, so I'd be disappointed in Debian if someone posted what they thought was innocuous correspondence back to the list, were incorrect and got heavily penalised for it. Also bearing in mind that what passes for "heavily penalised" on this list is probably "Andy Cater posts a finger-wagging response about you"¹ as the full extent of the repercussions. There are regular posters here who have posted outright, inarguably racist and bigoted views, and admitted so (proudly, in some cases), and yet they are still here. So you know, a sense of proportion. Thanks, Andy ¹ This isn't a criticism of Andy Cater. To even do that much is quite difficult, here. -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
