Inappropriate tone on this mailing list and requirement for governance

[Brian McKee]

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Res <res at ausics.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 8 May 2009, Brian McKee wrote:
>> I think the peanut gallery is inevitable, if they can't comment there
>> they'll comment on list, which means everyone else has to put up with
>> it.
>> And hopefully the moderators will either have a thick enough skin or
>> skill enough with filters to deal with the peanut gallery.
>> To me, a big point of the list is to get the 'meta' discussions off this list.

> Yes but administrative discussion are nobodies business but list owners
> and mods, therefore nobody but them should have even read access to the
> list or archives, otherwise its like a court room jury debate on
> talkback radio, you just dont do it :)

That's the part maybe we have to agree to disagree on.
Why can't jury debates be on the air?
A good jury member makes up his mind from all the facts, and is
willing to explain them (once) if asked.
A closed FL/OSS anything smells hypocritical to me.

Brian

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