Sharp: Closing a door

When you communicate in public, you communicate in public. If you want to use private code, communicate in private.

When our family meetings (4 siblings) started to include newly gained partners/inlaws, they tended to be very on edge since they thought we were going to crank out the knives any minute. We were habitually calling each other the sort of things we called each other when growing up.

It was a very stressful environment for the newcomers and "that's just the way we talk" did not really make it all that much more tolerable. So we had to adapt.

In the case of LKML we are talking about a globally published discussion group with people from a much more diverse background than our extended family. It seems sort of obvious that this kind of common sense for leading a public discussion would apply even more here.