<p dir="ltr">Happily, /dev/null already exists on POSIX systems as a good place to send trollish personal attacks.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 10, 2015 8:19 AM, "kirby urner" <<a href="mailto:kirby.urner@gmail.com">kirby.urner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>I should have thought it worthy of note that June saw a correspondence that culminated in the ejection of a member from the list. This is particularly important because the person in question had suggested that she would be taking up her complaint elsewhere. If that's going to happen I think the Board should be appraised of it.</div><div><br></div><div>But what do other members think?</div><div><br></div><div>regards</div><div> Steve</div><div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br><br></div><div>I was thinking since that happened right at the end of June we might defer mention until the July report by when we'll have more hindsight if there were further developments we needed to work through. Deputy moderator Mertz talked about "vetting" and that seems to be a relevant takeaway.<br><br>For example, Mertz and I had been talking Cuba since April 1 pretty steadily off and on, so he was already clear about my interest, so I was invited on at the inception. However the "by invitation" aspect of our charter is maybe what to stress i.e. yes, the archive is public but folks who subscribe with a majorly disruptive agenda do face moderator push back and even ejection.<br><br>This is not a unique circumstance in Python.org i.e. I speak from experience as one moderators have sometimes pushed back against e.g. psf-volunteers when I encouraged board candidates to use it for its public-facing archive.<br><br></div><div>My question would be: where might X (any X) ejected from group Y (any Y) within Python.org find another listserv where rants / speeches / points of view could be shared in greater volume and for public consumption. I'd suggested Diversity but that's a closed list, like psf-members. <br><br>I'd almost think a psf-rants or psf-dissent or just <a href="mailto:pet-peeve@python.org" target="_blank">pet-peeve@python.org</a> might make sense, with the psf- indicating that PSF has authorized the existence of said channel, even if it does not necessarily endorse or express itself through any of the postings. diversity-sig maybe? That one already exists but has a forbidding front end and everyone is afraid to use it for anything, so scratch that.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Kirby<br><br><br><br></div></div><br></div></div>
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