On 11/30/07, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
If that email had been the only way to exonerate !! and !! had still been blocked at the time, and there hadn't already been an arbitration case about the incident started, then there'd be some credibility to that viewpoint.
Unblocked is not exonerated. Showing that the whole process was a farce is exonerated. If nobody leaked the "secret evidence", everyone would assume that there was probably SOMETHING to the evidence, just not enough evidence to convict, as it were.
I think we do need to have and protect people willing to whistleblow on actual malfeasance should it happen. But that's not even remotely what happened here. The only goal served by Giano's actions was drama and disruption.
Well, the whole project now knows about the mailing lists. We know that the next time to apparently unrelated admins show up with the same opinion, you have to think for a second before automatically assuming they are acting independently.
I can and do AGF about Giano's motives, but his actions were still abusive.
The only thinkg I can find wrong with Giano's behavior is: 1. He should have posted the evidence off-site to 100% avoid even the appearance of a copyright claim. 2. He should not have readded text that was deleted.
But publishing the actual "evidence"-- that was a moral imperative.
Alec