The debian-private mailing list leak, part 1. Volunteers have complained about Blackmail. Lynchings. Character assassination. Defamation. Cyberbullying. Volunteers who gave many years of their lives are picked out at random for cruel social experiments. The former DPL's girlfriend Molly de Blanc is given volunteers to experiment on for her crazy talks. These volunteers never consented to be used like lab rats. We don't either. debian-private can no longer be a safe space for the cabal. Let these monsters have nowhere to hide. Volunteers are not disposable. We stand with the victims.
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Appologies all around...

I've been a computer hack for going on 14 years and I've been active on the
net for the past 6 or so, yet I continue to forget a very basic fact...

  People simply do not act the same over email as they do on the phone or
  in person.

At least twice in the last two weeks I have ended up in real-time
conversations with someone I had been fighting with over email
and I instantly regretted some of the things I had said.

I can be a stubborn SOB sometimes and I fight for what I beleive in.  On
the other hand, I like to think I can be reasoned with and can admit when
I'm wrong.

Well, I was wrong, and I appologise.
("I was wrrrrr.... wrrrrrr....  wrrrrrng."  for "Happy Days" fans).

All of the people in this project are trying to do what they think is best
and do it in their free time.  They do not deserve my attacks.  They
deserve my praise and my respect.

We're all on the same side and we're all adults.  I'd ask everyone to
think about what has happened and what has been said over the past few
months.  Would you do/say those things if you were sitting across the
table from your adversary?  I certainly didn't when I found myself on
the telephone with them.

I think the best thing for this project would be for everybody to sit
down over a beer and laugh a little.  We can all be friends.  Yes we
have some problems, but we can work them out if we work together instead
against one another.

The past is the past.  Let's work on the future.

                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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