Re: [ga] Proposal for mailing list policy

[Richard Lindsay <richard@interq.ad.jp>]

Harald,

From one of the silent minority, I support this as well!
I look forward to the day when we can all post our opinions
and not have to worry about receiving irrelevant emails
for the rest of our lives...

Best regards,
Richard

Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:

> Here's an attempt at formulating a coherent and useful mailing list policy.
> It would be useful if we could take this as a basis for discussion; what I
> expect to happen is that we get a "sense of the list" and modify the
> proposal in light of comments, make a new proposal near the end of the
> week, and attempt to take an opinion poll on the result, ending early next
> week.
>
> One thing that I'm particularly unsure about in this proposal is the
> requirement to be able to verify identity if demanded; this is a costly
> operation with many inherent problems wrt privacy/free speech, standards of
> proof and so on.
> If implemented at all, I think the suggested method is something like what
> it would have to be, but I'd like to see if there is list support for
> either keeping it or dropping it altogether.

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