(Tim Starling ts4294967296@hotmail.com):
Sorry if I gave the wrong impression, but the reason I'm sending it by private email is so that I control who gets it. As I said on User:Timbot:
:In keeping with Wikipedia policy, the source code is secret, :however, it will be made available via email to well-behaved :users if required ... Perhaps if The Cunctator or Lee have formed a better impression of you, you can convince one of them to give you the code.
I express no opinion about Fred, but the code is Tim's to give or not give to whomever he chooses, and I won't usurp his prerogative. However, I must say that I find no evidence at all of any "policy" that bot code should be private. Indeed, I see no reason at all why shy bots should not be as public as everything else here. Yes, they are potentially destructive, but so is all technology. Keeping things like that secret is just security through obscurity--if making the code free is a problem, then it's a problem we have now already and should think about ways to ameliorate.