On Sun, 2019-06-09 at 21:47 -0400, Temlakos wrote:
To the administrators of the Fedora Project Test List:
Would one of you tell me please,
what, in the names of Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman,
does the likelihood of the death or resignation of an Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court of the United States of America,
or an attempt to remove her from the bench on impeachment for and
conviction of some form of "high crime or misdemeanor,"
in a time frame that would allow the incumbent President of the United
States to nominate her successor
(and the United States Senate, as presently constituted, to confirm the
appointment of said successor),
have to do with the development or (alpha, beta, gamma) testing of Fedora?
Nothing. To be clear, there's no pre-emptive moderation on this list:
mails sent by subscribers are automatically approved so long as they
aren't too large and don't have too many CCs (among a few other rules).
Does this post violate some kind of guideline, or does it not?
Oddly enough, I don't think it actually does, unless you bend the
guidelines quite a lot, because...
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
...unless I'm missing something, none of the guidelines say "don't post
anything wildly off-topic". Probably there *should* be a guideline for
that, though.
And I wish to express my strongest displeasure at the above,
and my desire /never/ to see that sort of thing again on this or any
other Fedora community list.
I mean, I don't think it was that bad? The OP likely just sent the mail
to a bunch of people they knew and accidentally included this list by
mistake. George, please don't do that in future, let's consider "don't
send anything wildly off-topic" to be a guideline for this list.
Especially things that have the potential to bring up needless
controversy.
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Adam Williamson
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