On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:51:12 -0800 "Michael A. Peters" <mpeters@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. This is a start to ask (beg or service) for money, the key is 'are you willing to donate money'. If this does happen who would decide how the money is spent, hmmmmmm....... > > 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. An announcement on the list with the survey should have been the starting point. If this was 'approved' by the 'fedora group', there could have been a filter added and the reply-to and other headers changed so the replies are redirected so the list in not polluted . The change could be noted in the email. Then depending on the response, the survey could have been sent out to individuals. > > Anyway, Fedora is about community involvement - and I'm glad they are > looking for responses from the community about this decision. >
