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

[Marc Wiriadisastra]

 From reading the first post it had nothing or I could not see anything 
regarding linux so I think the argument is that it "has" to relate to 
linux maybe I'm wrong.

Marc

Bret Busby wrote:

>On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Craig Foster wrote:
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>>>-----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
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>>>On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 22:04, Craig Foster wrote:
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>>>>Taken Off-List
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>>>Not quite sure why this was "taken off-list", seeing as I 
>>>wanted some debate about the subject.
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>>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...
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>This then leads to the following questions;
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>1. Are you one of the list administrators for the list?
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>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?
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>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.
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