Inappropriate tone on this mailing list and requirement for governance

[Res]

On Fri, 8 May 2009, Brian McKee wrote:

> That's the part maybe we have to agree to disagree on.

I guess so :)

> Why can't jury debates be on the air?
> A good jury member makes up his mind from all the facts, and is

correct, but normal list members are not part of the jury, and the 
evidence (all the facts) are how X demonstrates themself on the public 
list, so nothing can be hidden.

> willing to explain them (once) if asked.
> A closed FL/OSS anything smells hypocritical to me.

its all about accountability to the list owners, any discussion 
should be in relation only to a breach of the CoC, nothing more.

>From a country where we have a communist labour party government trying to 
force dictatorship and internet censorship upon us (Australia - its that 
bad abortion and homosexual education based web sites etc are on a ban list,
nothing porno about them either apprently, its purely religous facism,
church and state must be separated /rant), so, I'm far from an advocate
to any censorship or secrecy, but I think what the list owners want
is reasonable providing they are aware of actions taken by an appointee,
which is why i suggest that any warnings not CC'd to the mod list are
invalid, any suspension/removal action not notified to the mod list should
not only be revoked, but the moderator who took the action should be
instantly dismissed from the mod team by a list owner for abuse of power.


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Res

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