On Nov 27, 2007 8:35 AM, Relata Refero refero.relata@gmail.com wrote:
You are setting up a false contradiction. 'Collusion', in Bryan's words, might have existed off the public list, once the evidence has been presented to the entire set. Matthew specifically laid that possibility open, in fact.
More accurately, no third parties can prove or deny one-to-one communications between any pair of editors or admins. I can't, you can't; only an involved party knows.
If an admin is going to make a block based on anything other than pure vandalism or something else incredibly obvious, I hope they DO talk to people about it. As much as possible. Ironically, in this case, if Durova had actually discussed this block on either of these mailing lists, it's possible someone would have dissuaded her from it.
-Matt