a word to those people who are also "outsiders". the B2G team have seen fit to enact censorship of the dev-b2g mailing list on the 17th march 2012, preventing and prohibiting messages from reaching the dev-b2g recipients.
i do not ask you to judge such decision-making but i simply make you aware of it, such that if you find such actions questionable you can take it into account, such as by replying to messages which have been sent to you (directly or as part of the cc list) in full or in part. for example, rather than normally cutting the entire context you might choose instead to leave most of it in (even though this is not normally-acceptable mailing list etiquette). you might also wish to simply repeat entire sentences in full, such as "so what you are saying is..." and then simply repeat the entire paragraph. however, please do think twice before doing so, because this may lead to you being targetted for censorship as well. if the topic being discussed was the development of nice pretty widgets, or was a discussion of how many pixels the size of an image had to be, there would be no way in hell i would be bothered to bring such trivial matters to your attention. the censorship of ideas and discussions surrounding something as important as the security of an entire operating system, when that operating system could potentially end up on hundreds of millions of devices, is however an entirely different matter. l. _______________________________________________ dev-security mailing list dev-security@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security
