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

Russell Nelson russnelson at gmail.com
Mon Nov 29 00:44:26 UTC 2010


Thank you for letting me know that YOU are not a reliable source of anything. Aude, on the other hand, I trust to be reliable.

WJhonson at aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 11/28/2010 3:36:34 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
>russnelson at gmail.com writes:
>
>
>> You misbelieve. Listen to Aude. She knows what she's talking about.
>> 
>
>I'd rather have Aude cite a reliable source.
>People are not reliable sources.  No living person is such an authority 
>that we should listen to that person.  Not even on their own biography, much 
>less anything else.
>
>The role of the expert is not to spout dogma, but rather to build a case 
>using citable sources.  No one is immune from this diction.  The Archangel 
>Gabriel told me so.
>
>W
>
>On a side-note you completely ignored what I actually stated.
>Aude mentioned the checkuser logs.  I pointed out that IP server logs are 
>*not* the same thing as checkuser logs.  The privacy policy states that these 
>exist, that they are kept.  It states or at least implies that as I said, 
>they are not the same thing as the checkuser logs.
>
>It does not state for how long, either is kept.
>
>So there.
>
>
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