[plug] List administration and policy - was RE: [plug] 3 Year Warranty

[Bret Busby]

On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Craig Foster wrote:

> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au 
> > [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au] On Behalf Of Onno Benschop
> > Sent: Thursday, 5 August 2004 5:16 AM
> > To: PLUG
> > Subject: RE: [plug] 3 Year Warranty
> > 
> > On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 22:04, Craig Foster wrote:
> > > Taken Off-List
> > 
> > Not quite sure why this was "taken off-list", seeing as I 
> > wanted some debate about the subject.
> 
> When discussing a company online, escpecially when there's complaints or
> other bad stuff that can come up, I'd prefer it not to be public / google
> searchable :) But that's just me...
>  
> 

This then leads to the following questions;

1. Are you one of the list administrators for the list?

2. When a person acts as a list administrator for the list, could they 
put a statement in their message, indicating that they are performing an 
action in the capacity of a list administrator for the list?

3. If the above (the response from Craig Foster, about "discussing a 
company online"), to is to be a list policy, does that mean that any 
references to ISP's and their performance, or, to companies, including 
banks, and government departments, like the ATO, that provide online 
services, in terms of their ability/willingness to provide linux 
compatible support/interfaces, or to politicians, in terms of their 
performamce/policies relating to either Linux of open source software, 
are to now be forbidden on the list? If so, this could also go to 
discussions about whether particular hardware and hardware manufacturing 
companies, and, software and software manufacturing companies, are 
Linux-friendly.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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