On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:41:54 -0700, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Oh, for crying out loud. My comment was about the public reaction to the _suspicion_ that secret mailing lists were being used to etc. It was meant to rebuke Larry's insinuation that that sort of thing was somehow accepted operating principle here. Whether it actually went on or not is a side issue.
Fair enough, sorry. I'm feeling very frustrated by the fact that a small group of what I can only think of as deliberate mischief-makers went to the Register and promoted the "evil cabal" meme which, by now, has been very comprehensively rebutted. It is extremely aggravating to receive an endless stream of email telling me how evil Wikipedia is.
On the plus side, the majority of those Register readers who email have, when told the full story, rapidly understood why the list needed to be private and why it was not a critical factor in what was, in the end, simply a piece of jaw-droppingly bad judgment by one admin.
Guy (JzG)