Gunnar Wolf writes ("Re: Proposed GR: Acknowledge difficulty of declassifying debian-private"): > I am replying to this particular one because, although I found your > previous mail a great summary, I tried to illustrate current > practice. I made the mistake of addressing only "moving a thread out > of private", as we have never "declassified a thread that happened in > private" - But restricting to this (much smaller) set, that's what is > customary: To ask explicit permission from all of the people I am > quoting when sending a public mail referencing a private discussion.
Ah, right, that makes sense. > But yes, I agree, it's not exactly synonimous, and we should be > dealing with the broader topic (declassification of what happened long > ago) and not with its easiest corner case. I think it would be worth me including something about this in the next version of my summary. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.