[Foundation-l] should not web server logs (of requests) be published?

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/29/2010 11:33:05 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
midom.lists at gmail.com writes:


> Hi!
> 
> > Go on record, then I'll cite you.
> > An email list is not a citable source, per our policy.
> 
> Why would I care about your policy? Which policy is 'our' policy? Why does 
> it apply to anything here? 
> 
> > However a page on the server is citable.
> > So put your reputation up for view, then you'll be citable :)
> 
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-November/062730.html
> 
> 
> Domas
> 

It's isn't my policy, it's our policy.
If you don't know to what I refer, then perhaps you can read up on it.
As far as citing the archives of an email list, that is also not a citable 
source.

If Foundation staff and supporters themselves, are *not prepared* to go on 
the record with their claims, then why should anyone trust anything they say 
on an email list?

That is the very nature of *false authority*, the bane of our project.  I 
must say, I'm quite surprised that some people here don't grasp this concept 
yet, after the projects being in existence for so many years now, almost a 
decade right?  It is a fundamental principle, that we should be citing actual 
authorities, not false claims to authority.

W