On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 19:04 -0500, William Yardley wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 04:02:36PM -0800, Josh Coffman wrote: > > > Any one else get an email from this email address (sopwith@xxxxxxxxxx) > > asking information regarding willingness to support a fedora 501c3 in > > the usa? > > Yes! I got this as well. Why he couldn't email the list directly, I > don't know, but I think this is a pretty inappropriate thing to do > (harvesting addresses from the list). My reading of the privacy policy > on Red Hat's site is that it doesn't apply to people subscribing to the > lists hosted by RH. I don't think it was that big of a deal. Had it been a solicitation for money, I might have objected. It is a pretty important decision that will impact the future of fedora, a mail to the list would have resulted in a lot of noise on the list as everyone would have replied to the list (and replied to replies to the list) - each response being sent to thousands of subscribers, and some of the responses may not be suitable for public viewing. Anyway, Fedora is about community involvement - and I'm glad they are looking for responses from the community about this decision.
