MJ Ray, Micah Anderson & Debian on drugs, prostitution at DebConf6 fight

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 23, 2026

Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock.

19:00 Fri, 23 Jan 2026

Remember the notorious prostitution rumours, fight and violence against Ted Walther at DebConf6?

Well, there were drugs too.

After the recent Techrights defamation trial fooled a High Court judge, we have an obligation to reflect on this.

  
Subject: Re: Events at the DebConf Dinner
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:36:40 -0400
From: Micah Anderson <micah@debian.org> 
To: debian-private@lists.debian.org
CC: debian-private@lists.debian.org 


MJ Ray wrote:> I bring it up because there seemed a blind spot about other
> drugs which were probably present and maybe played some role 
> in the described mess.  I'd hate to see a formal dinner where
> they were banned, but it seems important that DDs are aware of
> them and any future stewards can handle their effects humanely.
I don't know how people got onto the topic of speculating what drugs
various people were using at the debconf formal dinner, but it seems
really obtuse and highly speculative for no particular purpose than just
to blahblah for the fun of it. I find such a discussion about things
that were "probably present and maybe played some role" to be incredible
wastes of bandwidth.


If people want to discuss the potential variables of drugs, drink, red
meat, sleep, caffeine, altitude, synesthesia induced by the mariachis,
air quality affect, water, etc. please do it at your local pub with
friends, where speculative gossip belongs, rather than spewing it all
over my inbox like Montezuma's revenge.


micah

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