From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261584AbVADJdb (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 04:33:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261586AbVADJda (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 04:33:30 -0500 Received: from [213.146.154.40] ([213.146.154.40]:57736 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261584AbVADJd1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 04:33:27 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 09:33:26 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Christoph Hellwig , Erik Mouw , Adrian Bunk , Domen Puncer , lkml Subject: Re: [patch] maintainers: remove moderated arm list Message-ID: <20050104093326.GA2408@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Erik Mouw , Adrian Bunk , Domen Puncer , lkml References: <20041225170825.GA31577@nd47.coderock.org> <20041225172155.A26504@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050103175438.GL2980@stusta.de> <20050104085437.GA26584@harddisk-recovery.com> <20050104090057.GA2035@infradead.org> <20050104092515.B9409@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050104092515.B9409@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:25:15AM +0000, Russell King wrote: > In that case, you can personally choose not to send mail there anymore. > It's completely up to you. No one is forcing you to send email to any > address. I don't plan to force anyone to do anything with their mailinglists. But we shouldn't mention lists with stupid policies as maintainer contacts. > You may wish to have 100% open communities everywhere, but unfortunately > we live in the real world where politicians get to make laws for us, and > we have to abide by them. If this means that people have to respect > peoples rights to privacy, and inform them when their privacy may not > be assured (and not violate that right to privacy without first doing > so.) > > I don't care if you personally agree with that or not. That's not what > it's about. It's about taking reasonable steps to cover ones own ass > and the communities ass to ensure survival in silly-law environments. Maybe you should offshore your lists to conuntries with saner laws (or at least to less obedient people..)