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Date:      Mon, 5 Mar 2018 02:37:27 -0600
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        Andras Farkas <deepbluemistake@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: The word "leaked"
Message-ID:  <20180305083726.GA32582@lonesome.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAA0nTRtYAqqiN4AkjbmfcHg=CbQpchefOO_BrkqGO-O3-ZX2AA@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <CAA0nTRtYAqqiN4AkjbmfcHg=CbQpchefOO_BrkqGO-O3-ZX2AA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, Mar 04, 2018 at 11:24:34PM -0500, Andras Farkas wrote:
> What do you have to hide from FreeBSD users?  Why should users trust
> people who hide things from them?

When I posted email to an internal list, I was under the impression
that it would remain confidential.

Someone, I don't know who, has violated that presumption of confidentiality;
that rudeness seems to have been skipped in this meta-discussion.

The way I might say something to someone in a small group of people may
not be the same way I would phrase it if I knew I was talking to the
whole world.  I might feel freer to express doubts and questions without
having every single word I said analyzed for correctness, by N people,
M of whom I don't even know.

If I have to carefully police every single thing I say in every single
venue, so that someone, somewhere, won't raise a stink, I might as well
give up this hobby and just read webcomics.

mcl



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